Titus Brandsma

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Titus Brandsma (Dutch: [ˈtityz ˈbrɑntsmaː]; born Anno Sjoerd Brandsma; 23 February 1881 – 26 July 1942) 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. Brandsma was beatified by the Catholic Church in November 1985 as a martyr of the faith and canonized on 15 May 2022 by Pope Francis.

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