St. Maximilian Kolbe (bearded, in front row, center) and his companions in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1936. | Credit: Public Domain/Courtesy of ‘Maximilian Kolbe: The Saint of Auschwitz’/Sophia ...

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.

LONDON - Books on St. Maximilian Kolbe are not uncommon. Since his canonization in 1982, there have been many books examining the life and martyrdom of the Polish friar.

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.