Titus Brandsma, born in 1881 and named Anno Sjoerd, was a Dutch Carmelite priest who also worked as a university professor and a journalist. When he joined the Carmelites in 1898 he took a new name according to Carmelite tradition, Titus, his father’s name and the name of the author of a New Testament epistle…. Read more »
Category: World War 2
FRITZ EICHENBERG (1901-1990)
Fritz Eichenberg was born in 1901 in Germany to a assimilated non-religious Jewish family. He studied art and became a wood engraver. He used his art to highlight moral and social convictions, including producing many anti-Hitler cartoons. When the Nazis came to power Eichenberg emigrated to the United States. The tragic death of his wife… Read more »
JACQUES MARITAIN (1882-1973)
Jacques Maritain was the major Catholic philosopher of the 20th Century. He was born in a Protestant family, but as a student he was an agnostic. He later met and married Raissa Oumensoff, a Jewish émigré from Russia, and together they began an intense spiritual quest. Under the influence of the philosopher Henri Bergson and… Read more »
AARON JEAN-MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER (1926-2007)
Aaron Lustiger was born in Paris in 1926 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Poland. When World War II broke out, the family fled to Orléans. After reading the Christian Bible, the teenage Lustiger felt drawn to the Orléans Cathedral. He decided to convert to Catholicism, with the reluctant consent of his parents, adding… Read more »
Hildegard Goss-Mayr and Jean Goss (b.1930) (1912-1991)
Hildegard Goss-Mayr & Jean Goss left a lasting imprint on peace training in their process for developing strategies & their methods of teaching nonviolence.