Introduction

Maybe a small country like the Netherlands once in a while in its history can be great because of the life and the work of one of its inhabitants. This kind of thinking is seductive but does not fit a person who, in the bloom of his life, was leading the life of a mystic par excellence.

Already on the occasion of the 50th birthday of Titus Brandsma (1881-1942) various facets of the spiritual personality of this Carmelite priest came to notice of people.