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About St. Maximilian Kolbe
January 8, 1894 – August 14, 1941 · Feast August 14 · Priest / Franciscan / Martyr
Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who founded the Militia of the Immaculate and the vast Niepokalanów friary, publisher of one of Poland's largest Catholic periodicals. Imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1941, he volunteered to take the place of a married father chosen for the death-by-starvation cell, and after two weeks without food or water was killed by lethal injection. He is honored as the 'Martyr of Charity' and patron saint of our 'difficult century.'
St. Maximilian Kolbe is the patron saint of Charity, Drug Abuse, Drug Addicts, Political Prisoners, Families, Journalists, Pro-life Movement, The Chemically Addicted and The Twentieth Century.
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