Titus Brandsma
Religious Leader
Dutch Catholic priest who was imprisoned and killed at the Dachau concentration camp because of his outspoken opposition to the Nazi party.
He was awarded a doctorate of philosophy at the Roman University in 1909.
He was arrested by Nazi officers after he attempted to tell the editors of Catholic newspapers not to print official Nazi documents.
His parents ran a small dairy farm in the Province of Friesland.
He was beatified as a martyr of the faith by Pope John Paul II in 1985.