The Carmelite father Titus Brandsma was a professor of philosophy at Nijmegen. During the Second World War he campaigned for a free catholic press. He died a martyr-death in the concentration-camp Dachau. He said that his fate was 'chosen to ally him to God'.

De Carmeliet pater Titus Brandsma was professor in de philosophie te Nijmegen. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog voerde hij actie voor een vrije katholieke pers. Hij stierf de marteldood in het concentratiekamp Dachau. Hij sprak over '..een alleruitverkorenst lot, dat hem verbond met God'.

Pater Titus Brandsma, de ordine montis Carmeli, erat professor philosophiae in Nijmegen. Dum Bellum Secundum Orbis Terrae durabat, agebat pro libertate in libris Catholicorum. Martyr erat et mortuus est in Dachau in castro concentrationis. Dixit fatum suum esse electum et coniungere eum cum Deo.