Prayer to St. Maximilian Kolbe

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OLSP | Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest And Saint | August 14, 2023, 530PM

Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan priest, missionary and martyr, is celebrated throughout the Church today, August 14. The saint died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, during World War II, and is remembered as a “martyr of charity” for dying in place of another prisoner who had a wife and children. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1982. Here are some facts you might not have known about this beloved saint: | Catholic News Agency

Raimund Kolbe, born in Russian Poland, was ordained a Franciscan, Maximilian Mary, in Rome. In the 1920s, he reopened a ruined Polish friary, started a Marian press and was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Despite his illness, he had successful Marian missions to Japan and India before returning to Poland in 1936. After the 1939 invasion of Poland, the Franciscans’ criticism of the occupiers prompted the arrest of Maximilian and four others, who ended up in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Maximilian

Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe

Mass Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe

St. Maximilian Kolbe