During World War II, Father Jozef Raskin, who was ordained in the congregation in 1910 and served as a

missionary in Inner Mongolia from 1920 to 1934

At the beginning of World War II, Father Jozef Raskin was chaplain and confidant of King Leopold III. After the Belgian
surrender, he quickly became active in the resistance group Leopold Vindictive 200. The group is engaged in mapping
the German army installations on the Belgian coast. The messages were sent by carrier pigeon with a tube on her leg
and in it an extremely thin piece of paper with detailed reverse and illustrated with maps on German positions.
However, Raskin was arrested as early as May 1, 1942. He was transferred from one prison in Germany to another for
more than a year before finally being beheaded in Dortmund on October 18, 1943. His two buddies in the resistance,
Arsenic Debaillie and Hector Joye, are executed together with him.

Father Raskin had already served in the Belgian army during the First World War and he also led an eventful soldier's
life in it. He was mobilized as a stretcher and captured during a bicycle ride in German-occupied territory. He was
able to escape from the fort of La Chartreuse in Liège and only came to the Yser in 1915. Having a skilled drawing pen
and keen observation skills, he was conscripted into the intelligence service. As a scout, he accurately mapped the
enemy outposts, thereby increasing the effect of the Belgian artillery. Several times he risked his life with a heroism
for which he was distinguished even then.