Van der Sandt (SANDAUS), MAXIMILIAN, b. at Amsterdam, April 17, 1578; d. at Cologne, June 21, 1656. He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, November 21, 1597; taught philosophy at Wurzburg, and Sacred Scripture at Mainz. He became superior of the episcopal seminary at Wurzburg. He wrote many works on philosophy and theology, among others a notable controversial reply to the Batavian Calvinist Lawrence in defense of the moral teaching of the Jesuits, “Castigatio conscientiae Jesuiticae cauteriata… a Jacobo Laurentio”, Wurzburg, 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.
GERTRUDE DANA STEELE