CNA Staff, Aug 14, 2024 / 16:06 pm. Aug. 14 is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a saint best known for his heroic martyrdom at Auschwitz in 1941, when he volunteered to be executed in place ...

Aug. 14 is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a saint best known for his heroic martyrdom at Auschwitz in 1941, when he volunteered to be executed in place of another prisoner.. Like many ...

Maximilian Maria Kolbe volunteered his life in the place of Franciszek Gajowniczek. When an incredulous SS officer asked why, Father Kolbe responded, “I am a Catholic priest from Poland.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 9, 2024 / 05:00 am. When the American military dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, the city was completely devastated — more than 40,000 ...

St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, patron saint of journalists, prisoners, and drug addicts, was a Polish priest who was murdered in Auschwitz after volunteering to die in the place of another.