Background
Van der Sandt was born in Amsterdam, then part of the Spanish Netherlands.
Van der Sandt was born in Amsterdam, then part of the Spanish Netherlands.
He became rector of the episcopal seminary at Würzburg. 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, titled Castigatio conscientiae Jesuiticae cauteriata..a Jacobo Laurentio, Würzburg, 1617.
lieutenant 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.
He died at Cologne, then a free city in the Holy Roman Empire.