St. Maximilian Kolbe Blessed Michael died Aug. 14. St. Maximilian Kolbe, the third significant feast for this month, also died Aug. 14, the Vigil of the Assumption, in 1941.

CNA Staff, Dec 28, 2020 / 08:00 am Relics of Auschwitz martyr St. Maximilian Kolbe were installed in a chapel in Poland's parliament before Christmas.

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.

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.

This painting of St. Maximilian Kolbe and Our Lady of Lourdes by A. Girardi (1984) hangs in Chiesa di San Francesco d’Assisi in Brescia, Italy. (photo: Renata Sedmakova / Shutterstock) ...

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.

In St. Maximilian Kolbe: A Hero of the Holocaust, author Fiorella De Maria aims the story of Father Kolbe’s magnificent life and martyr’s death to young readers, ages 9 to 14.

St. Maximilian Kolbe left nothing written about this. When the incident occurred, Kolbe was about 10 years old. At the time, the family had moved to another small town in Poland called Pabianice.

St. Maximilian Kolbe as a prisoner in Auschwitz, 1941. (photo: Auschwitz Museum / Auschwitz Museum) Monika Jablonska Blogs September 3, 2021 ...

The sainthood cause of a Swiss priest whose “supernatural conceptions” made an impression on St. Maximilian Kolbe has advanced, along with those of six other Servants of God.