Father Raskin

Jozef Maria Raskin was a Belgian artist, painter, draftsman, and Scheutist missionary who served in World War I and became a missionary in China from 1920 to 1934. Later, during World War II, he was drafted into the Belgian army as a chaplain and was a personal advisor to King Leopold III. While operating under the code name Leopold Vindictive 200 for the Dutch resistance, onMay 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo, tried and convicted, and onOctober 1943 was guillotined. A statue honoring his service stands in Aarschot. After World War II, a book about Raskins exploits in both world wars was written by Jozef De Vroey, himself a Catholic priest and survivor of both these conflicts, under the title Pater Raskin in de beide wereldoorlogen .

Jozef Raskin was born in Stevoort, Belgium, in 1892. He was the eldest son of Amandus and Marie Leonie . He studied in a college in SintTruiden and took his vows in 1910 from the CICM Missionaries, a Catholic religious order widely known as the Scheut Missionaries.

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