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.

The major relics of Maximilian Kolbe, who was canonized by St. John Paul II, began an 8-month tour Jan. 15-17 in Ellicott City, Md., at the Shrine of St. Anthony. The tour started with noon Mass ...

The major relics of Maximilian Kolbe, who was canonized by St. John Paul II, began an 8-month tour Jan. 15-17 in Ellicott City, Md., at the Shrine of St. Anthony. The tour started with noon Mass ...

For the past year, the Saint Maximilian Kolbe Center for Life in Macon has been promoting the sanctity of life from conception to natural death. The center celebrated its first anniversary and its ...

St. Ita's Catholic Church installed a relic of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan friar martyred at the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp.

Rome Newsroom, Aug 14, 2024 / 04:00 am. As World War II raged around him in Poland, St. Maximilian Kolbe fought for souls using a printing press and another “weapon” — the Miraculous Medal.

St. Maximilian Kolbe is pictured in an undated black-and-white file photo. The Polish priest gave his life in place of a young father condemned to execution by the Nazis.

German church hosts Maximilian Kolbe mass at Auschwitz News The entrance gate to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp is seen in Oswiecim, Poland, in this Sept. 4, 2015, file photo.

The major relics of St. Maximilian Kolbe, who was canonized by St. John Paul II, began an eight-month tour Jan. 15-17 in Ellicott City, Md., at the Shrine of St. Anthony. The tour, sponsored by ...