St. Peter Canisius deserves remembrance as more than a mere embodiment of 16th-century Counter-Reformation thought. German Jesuit Peter Canisius is known as a saint of the Counter-Reformation.

The painting of St. Peter Canisius probably comes from the 16th century, the work of a monogrammist “AE.” It is held by the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and is the usual depiction of the saint.

In this he followed the example of Peter Canisius, who also died on a campus he loved, at Fribourg, in 1597 – precisely 250 years before Behrens’s feat of cinematic sangfroid during the ...