Maximilian van der Sandt

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.

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.

External links

• Thomas Gandlau (1994). Bautz, Traugott. ed (in German). Sandaeus (van der Sandt, Vandersant, van den Sanden) Maximilianus. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 8. Herzberg. cols. 1300–1303. ISBN 3-88309-053-0. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/s/s1/sandaeus_m.shtml. 

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Name	Sandt, Maximilian van der
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Date of birth	17 April 1578
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Date of death	21 June 1656
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