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Guillaume Lemmens
(Joseph Hubert Guillaume)

∗ 26-07-1884 Schimmert     † 22-07-1960 Roermond (75)
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Guillaume Lemmens was the bishop of the diocese of Roermond from 1932 to 1957. This diocese coincides with the Dutch province of Limburg.
He was an avowed opponent of National Socialism and of any form of collaboration with the German occupiers. [1]
Cammaert wrote: We can assume that Bishop Lemmens was very well informed about what was going on with regard to the resistance in Limburg. However, he never actively intervened, but left this to his secretary J.L. Moonen. The latter means that he did not disapprove of the involvement of either the Limburg clergy or the laity in the resistance. In his position as leader of the Limburg Catholics, Lemmens had more interests to serve and bore more responsibility. The influential vicar general F.J. Féron repeatedly emphasized the latter fact. Nevertheless, Lemmens could not refrain from putting some of the episcopate’s principled standpoint into practice. For example, he tolerated his car and driver being available to the underground movement at times. [2]

Footnotes

1. nl.wikipedia.org Guillaume Lemmens
2. Cammaert, A. P. M. (1994). Het verborgen front: Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
   Deel 1, Introductie van vaak genoemde personen, pp.18ff
3. Wikipedia NL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemmens_Bisschop_Gulielmus.jpg