St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz, is one of the 20th century's most notable saints. But behind his trademark glasses, deep devotion to the ...

Indeed Maximilian Kolbe was a "force" on the watch list ... The base is shaped like Poland, the place of his birth and where his vocation and work first flourished. "Thorns" grow from this ...

The sacrifice of Fr. Maximilian Kolbe further intensified my religiosity and devotion to the Catholic Church, which gives birth to such heroes.” In 1949, the beatification process for Father ...

Indeed Maximilian Kolbe was a “force” on the watch list ... The base is shaped like Poland, the place of his birth and where his vocation and work first flourished. “Thorns” grow from ...

His name was Maximilian Kolbe. He was a Conventual Franciscan friar and would later be canonized. The Polish religious was one of the most beautiful figures of holiness of the last century and a ...

This, however, was no random cell: it was the cell where St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, spent his final hours, starved and dehydrated before being administered a ...

1, 1939) and the beginning of World War II, the German Bishops Conference held a Mass this month at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp honoring the legacy of St. Maximilian Kolbe.