17 Facts About Titus Brandsma

Titus Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before World War II.

Titus Brandsma was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1942.

Titus Brandsma was beatified by the Catholic Church in November 1985 as a martyr of the faith and canonized as a saint on 15 May 2022 by Pope Francis.

In 1921, Titus Brandsma worked to resolve a controversy concerning Belgian artist Albert Servaes' depiction of the Stations of the Cross.

One of the founders of the Catholic University of Nijmegen, Titus Brandsma became a professor of philosophy and the history of mysticism at the school in 1923.

Titus Brandsma was noted for his constant availability to everyone, rather than for his scholarly work as a professor.

Titus Brandsma worked as a journalist and was the ecclesiastical adviser to Catholic journalists by 1935.

Titus Brandsma stayed at the friary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Kinsale, where he practiced English.

Titus Brandsma died on 26 July 1942, from a lethal injection administered by a nurse of the Allgemeine SS, as part of their program of medical experimentation on the prisoners.

Titus Brandsma is honoured as a martyr within the Catholic Church.

Titus Brandsma was beatified in November 1985 by Pope John Paul II.

On 25 November 2021, Pope Francis recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Titus Brandsma, who "was killed in hatred of the faith", and authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to advance Titus Brandsma's cause for sainthood.

In 2005, Titus Brandsma was chosen by the inhabitants of Nijmegen as the greatest citizen to have lived there.

Titus Brandsma's ideas were very much those of his own age and modern as well.

Titus Brandsma offset contemporary Catholicism's negative theological opinion about Judaism with a strong disaffection for any kind of antisemitism in Hitler's Germany.

Titus Brandsma was honoured by the city of Dachau with a street adjoining the former camp, albeit one of the narrowest streets in the town.

Titus Brandsma participated in the international Esperanto movement and is considered a patron saint by the International Union of Catholic Esperantists.