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Father Titus is Arrested - Letters Written in Prison

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Bl. Titus Brandsma, O.Carm.

 

January 19, 1942: Father Titus is Arrested

Having spent the night in Arnhem, I was told that I must spend another night there. With these words I was brought into cell 577 on January 20. Next morning I had to be ready at half past eight to be tried at the Hague. This would probably be finished in the afternoon, and in view of my health I would probably be allowed home. On the night of January 21,

On the 70th anniversary of Blessed Titus Brandsma's death in Dachau - Journalists and martyrs

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by Angelo Paoluzi - L'Osservatore Romano

Seventy years ago, on 26 July 1942, Fr Titus Brandsma was killed in Dachau. This is the Dutch Carmelite who was elevated in 1985 to the honour of the altars and proclaimed, along with St Francis de Sales, co-patron of journalists. Already in the 1930s he denounced the anti-Christian component of Nazism,  and continued to do so – with the support of the bishop – even after the Germans invaded the Netherlands.

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