Van der Sandt (Sandaus), Maximilian, b. at Amsterdam, 17 April, 1578; d. at Cologne, 21 June, 1656. He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, 21 Nov., 1597; taught philosophy at Wiirzburg, 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 defence of the moral teaching of the Jesuits, “Castigatio conscientiz Jesuitice cauteriata ...a Jacobo Laurentio”, Wiirzburg, 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.
SOMMERVOGEL, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jésus, XII (Paris, 1896); POULAIN, Des Graces d’oraison (6th ed., Paris); The Graces of Interior Prayer, tr. SMITH (London, 1911).
Gertrude Dana Steele.