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 Dutch 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, Carlos, 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)
- This article incorporates text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article "Maximilian Van der Sandt" by Gertrude Dana Steele, a publication now in the public domain.
[edit] External links
- (German) BBK page
