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 Catholic ...

Last year, the Catholic Church in Poland shared a photo commemorating the 81st anniversary of Saint Maximilian Kolbe’s arrest by the Nazis. The image, the last one taken of the saint before his final ...

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 ...

Relics of Auschwitz martyr St. Maximilian Kolbe were installed in a chapel in Poland's parliament before Christmas. The relics were transferred Dec. 17 to the Mother of God, Mother of the Church ...

Last month, Marie Elaine Quiray, the creator behind Blessed Friends Forever, an online retailer of Catholic children's items, posted a preview of her latest series of saint T-shirts, including a St.

St. Maximilian Kolbe is depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Josaphat Church in the Queens borough of New York City. The Polish priest gave his life in place of a young father condemned to ...

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 ...

The 84th anniversary of the death of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe- a Polish Franciscan priest who, during the Second World War, volunteered to die in place of a fellow prisoner, Franciszek Gajowniczek ...

The relic of St. Maximilian Kolbe, who exchanged his life for that of another prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. in German occupied Poland, will be on display at Our Lady of the ...

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