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Christian feast day: Titus Brandsma, O.Carm.
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Titus Brandsma
Dutch Catholic priest (1881–1942)
Titus Brandsma was a Dutch Carmelite priest and a professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before World War II. He was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1942.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Carmelites
Catholic religious order
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