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  1. Journalist Marc van der Woude schreef in de afgelopen weken een aantal hele interessante artikelen over het warmtenet in Amersfoort voor @destadsbron

    Deel één: Amersfoort zit klem in zijn warmtenet destadsbron.nl/nl/Amersfoort_z

    #Amersfoort #warmtenet

  2. Quote of the day, 3 August: Saints Titus and Edith

    Early on Thursday, March 12, a police officer entered Titus’ cell to announce: “In the name of the Supreme Commander of the Security Police I inform you that you are to follow me. You are leaving for the camp in Amersfoort. Transport is waiting.”

    Titus had scarcely time to pick up his books, his pen and papers, his pajamas … Amersfoort! He was already nostalgic as he abandoned his cell-become-hermitage, a place where he had passed hours of intensely spiritual experience. He had barely grabbed his things when a soldier slammed the door behind him. In the central yard, Titus found at least a hundred prisoners in formation; on command, they climbed into canvas-covered trucks for the trip to the concentration camp at Amersfoort, in the interior of the Netherlands. The vehicles formed a caravan under the guard of the SS Police. 

    Father Miguel Arribas, O.Carm.

    The Price of Truth, ch. VIII

    Nearly five months later, Saint Edith Stein and her sister Rosa were taken to the same camp:

    [After Edith and Rosa’s arrest on Sunday, August 2] their route had been as follows. In the police van, they went from Echt to the headquarters at Roermond. In the evening they left in two police vans, one carrying thirteen and the other seventeen people. The destination was Amersfoort, but the driver missed his way, and they did not arrive until three in the morning.

    Sister Teresia Renata Posselt, O.C.D.

    Edith Stein, ch. 21

    Note: Sr. Teresia Renata notes that “usually this journey takes three to four hours. Apparently, the driver took the good road through Nijmegen, Arnhem, and then followed the main road from Utrecht to The Hague. Between Arnhem and Utrecht they left the main road and did not get back again, that is understandable enough in view of the blackout. The prisoners remained in the Amersfoort Camp from early on Monday until Tuesday evening [3–4 August].”

    Arribas O.Carm., M 2021, The Price of Truth: Titus Brandsma, Carmelite, Carmelite Media, Darien, Illinois.

    Posselt, T 2005, Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite, translated from the German by Batzdorff S, Koeppel J, and Sullivan J, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

    Featured image: This commemorative stone is located at the historic site of the Nazi transit camp at Amersfoort, Netherlands. The inscription says, “They who were killed here in the years 1940–1945 have consecrated this ground with their blood. May their sacrifice be a shining example to posterity.” Image credit: Dan Dunn, d0mokun / Flickr (Some rights reserved).

    #Amersfoort #detention #Nazism #StEdithStein #StTitusBrandsma
  3. Zaterdag zoals verwacht ook #CodeRood, maar alleen in #Overijssel, #Gelderland, #NoordBrabant en #Limburg. #Utrecht dus niet! Maar ik heb even een lijn getrokken (zie rechter afbeelding), want je zult maar in #Amersfoort of #Veenendaal wonen. 🥵