Piet Derksen (1913 - 24 February 1996) was a Dutch businessman who founded Center Parcs. A devout Catholic, he was also a philanthropist donating all his fortune to various causes. 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... // Background Center Parcs started out in a forest in The Netherlands as a new type of holiday resort, founded by Dutch businessman Piet Derksen. ...
Despite his incarceration the Strasbourg radical population grew (Derksen claims as much as one-fifth of the population was Anabaptist between 1530-1532, although how he arrives at this number is unclear), straining the magistrate's forbearance.
Derksen's study includes a prodigious amount of core data on the Strasbourg radicals (the index alone is a treasure trove of names and subjects for anyone working in the field), yet it needed more critical discourse.
Piet Visser (in Broeders in de geest) has pointed out that Jan Philipsz Schabaelje was also a great influence on the 1631 edition, evidently having written the two striking and important introductions to that volume.
Derksen Thanksgiving weekend 1982, when Father Tom Forrest arranged for us to travel together from Rome to Medjugorje for the first time.
Derksen explained the vision they had received in prayer over a period of many months.
Derksen, the Catholic Bishops of America and those of you who support "The Way Home," we have installed television production centers for the Church in thirty-one different countries.
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