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“Jantje” Keulen
(Jan Joseph)
∗ 12-11-1917 Brunssum † 26-07-2012 Heerlen (94)
- The clergy - Aid to People in Hiding L.O. - Survivors - Heerlen -
- Jan Keulen, Wikipedia • Nederlands
- Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
6. De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers, District Heerlen, pp.654 ff. - Vaticanum II, Wikipedia • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Português
- In Memoriam Jan Keulen
- Jan Keulen, Jan Luijten, Jan van der Putten &al. De grenzen van het Romeinse Rijk
- • Jan Keulen, Libanon : mensen, politiek, economie, cultuur
• Jan Keulen, Guatemala : mensen, politiek, economie, cultuur - https://www.rijckheyt.nl/archief/resultaat?mivast=62&mizig=100&miadt=62&miview=tbl&milang=nl&misort=last_mod%7Cdesc&mip1=Keulen&mip3=Jan+Joseph&mip5=Heerlen
Jan Keulen grew up in Bingelrade. He was called Jantje in the resistance.
Jan Keulen became vicar at St. Pancratius parish in Heerlen in 1943. He was asked by his colleague Jan Willem Berix to help with the resistance and the sheltering of people in hiding in the LO, National Organization for Aid to those in hiding. He became subdistrict leader and later after Berix’s arrest on June 21, 1944, district leader of Z18 (District Heerlen of the L.O.). He worked together with many from the Limburg resistance and engaged in many activities. [1]
He initially shared the management of the Heerlen sub-district with Constant Cornips, then took over alone. After the arrests in Weert on June 21, Van Kooten temporarily took over the leadership of the district. Berix’s final successors were Vicar J.J. Keulen, who was mainly responsible for the internal relations and affairs of the district, and the head of the Kerkrade sub-district, Th.J.M. Goossen, who was mainly responsible for the external relations of the district. [2]
After Heerlen was liberated on September 17, 1944, he was allowed to address Queen Wilhelmina at a ceremony in the city hall and to hand her a memorandum of the LO in the mining region.
After the war he remained vicar in Heerlen until September 1952 and then moved to Schinnen where he became parish priest. Until 1995 he was emeritus dean of Schinnen. [1]
The family wrote on his In Memoriam card: We laid him to rest in the cemetery of Schinnen.
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He was the priest who sympathized with people who had gone wrong because he was aware of his own mistakes. The inspired man who, with his colleagues and many lay people, in the time after the Council [3], used all his strength to shape the renewal of the Council also in Limburg and who did not resign himself to it when the renewal stagnated. He was the compassionate man who suffered the decline of the church, the sincere believer who finally accepted his suffering and death. [4]
He was one of the three authors of De grenzen van het Romeinse Rijk (The Limits of the Roman Empire). [5]
He also wrote the books Libanon: mensen, politiek, economie, cultuurand Guatemala: mensen, politiek, economie, cultuur (Lebanon: people, politics, economics, culture and Guatemala: people, politics, economics, culture). [6]
Jan Keulen was Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau and bearer of the Resistance Memorial Cross. [1]
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