Maximilian Kolbe, also known as Maksymilian or Massimiliano Maria Kolbe and "Apostle of Consecration to Mary," born as Rajmund Kolbe, was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland. He was canonized by the Catholic Church as Saint Maximilian Kolbe on October 10, 1982 by Pope John Paul II, and declared a martyr of charity. Wikipedia
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The very name Auschwitz evokes memories of the hellish cruelty of all the Nazi prison camps. Yet these camps also produced heroes. St. Maximilian Kolbe was a glorious example. ... In 1939, Fr. Kolbe was recalled from Japan and named superior at Niep www.stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/id617.htm
Maximilian studied at Rome and was ordained in 1919. He returned to Poland and taught Church history in a seminary. He built a friary just west of Warsaw, which eventually housed 762 Franciscans and printed eleven periodicals (one with a circulation of www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Kolbe.html
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Father Kolbe founded the Immaculate Movement and helped form a community of 800 Franciscan men, the largest in the world. He went to Japan where he built a monastery and then on to India where he spoke about the Immaculate Movement. In 1936, he returned www.ainglkiss.com/saints/maxk.html
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