Maximilian Van der Sandt

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Maximilian Van der Sandt (born at Amsterdam, 17 April 1578; d. at Cologne, 21 June 1656), known as Sandaus or Sandaeus, was a Duthc Jesuit.

He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, 21 November, 1597; he taught philosophy at Würzburg, and Sacred Scripture at Mainz. He became superior of the episcopal seminary at Würzburg.

He wrote many works on philosophy and theology, among others a notable controversial reply to the Batavian Calvinist Lawrence in defence of the moral teaching of the Jesuits, "Castigatio conscientiae Jesuiticae cauteriata. . .a Jacobo Laurentio", Würzburg, 1617. It was said of him that he left a book for every one of the seventy-eight years of his life, several devotional treatises on the Blessed Virgin, and many ascetical and mystical treatises.

[edit] References

• Sommervogel, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus, XII (Paris, 1896)
• Poulain, Des Graces d'orasion (6th ed., Paris); The Graces of Interior Prayer, tr. Smith (London, 1911)

[edit] External link

• (German) BBK page]

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