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Saint Maximilian Kolbe

Saint Maximilian Kolbe

Writer: Fr. Sharon Capuchin
Fr. Sharon Capuchin
Aug 14, 2024
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Updated: Aug 16, 2024

St. Maxmillion Kolbe
St. Maxmillion Kolbe

Saint Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Conventual Franciscan Friar. During the German occupation of Poland, he remained at Niepokalanów a monastery which published a number of anti-Nazi German publications. In 1941, he was arrested and sent to Auschwitz, where in terrible circumstances he continued to work as a priest and offer solace to fellow inmates. When the Nazi guards selected 10 people to be starved to death in punishment, Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger. He was later canonised as a martyr.

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