St. Maximilian Kolbe
Discover St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Franciscan priest who volunteered to die in place of a stranger at Auschwitz. Learn about his Marian devotion, his media apostolate, and his heroic act of self-sacrifice.
No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it.
— St. Maximilian Kolbe
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📖Biography
Maximilian Maria Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan friar who pioneered the use of media for evangelization, founding a publishing center that produced newspapers, magazines, and radio broadcasts. He was deeply devoted to the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding the Militia Immaculatae movement. During World War II, he sheltered thousands of refugees, including 2,000 Jews. Arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz, he volunteered to take the place of a stranger, Franciszek Gajowniczek, who had been selected for death by starvation. After two weeks in the starvation bunker, still alive and praying, he was killed by lethal injection on August 14, 1941. He was canonized in 1982 as a 'martyr of charity.'
🙏Prayer to St. Maximilian Kolbe
O Lord Jesus Christ, who said, 'Greater love than this no man has that a man lay down his life for his friends,' through the intercession of St. Maximilian Kolbe, whose life illustrated such love, we beseech You to grant us our petitions. Through the Militia Immaculatae movement, founded by St. Maximilian, many hearts were turned to You. May our prayer be united with his, in body and soul, for the salvation of all. Amen.
💡Lessons from St. Maximilian Kolbe
The greatest love is shown in sacrificing oneself for another
Modern media can and should be used for the glory of God
Devotion to Mary leads to deeper union with Christ
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