Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan priest, missionary and martyr, will soon be celebrated throughout the Church on his feast day, August 14. The saint died in the concentration camp at ...

Maximilian Kolbe, patron saint of the pro-life movement ... which became Kolbe’s feast day. Kolbe was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1982. Saturday, the day after the 74th anniversary ...

MARMORA – Bring your beach chair to Mass next week. St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish will hold a Feast Day Celebration in Strathmere in honor of its patron saint on Thursday, Aug. 14. There will be a ...

But on this particular feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, we have a fresh reminder of the kind of bravery, humility, and love for God this type of self-sacrifice takes. On July 29, 1941 ...

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 ...

(OSV News) -- During his 2016 apostolic visit to Poland for World Youth Day, Pope Francis visited ... it was the cell where St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, spent ...

a holy day of obligation for Catholics. The feast celebrates when the Virgin Mary was taken to heaven. In 1982, Gajowniczek spoke out against the anti semitism accusations against Kolbe.

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.

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 ...

"Ever heard of St. Maximilian ... Kolbe scapular, thanked Russell for his charity of a gift and lunch, and took off to my next assignment. That night at my hotel room in Alamosa, Colorado, after a ...

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 ...