Kolbe was beatified by the Catholic Church on October 17, 1971. On October 10, 1982, another Polish saint, Pope Saint John Paul II, canonized Kolbe and declared him a martyr of the Church at a solemn ...
A visit to the American shrine to St. Maximilian Kolbe in Libertyville, Illinois. The Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel and images of the martyred saint in Libertyville, Illinois, pay tribute ...
On Aug. 14, 1941, the eve of the solemnity of the Assumption, in Block 11 of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a man who had the number 16670 sewn onto his prison uniform was killed by an injection of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Polish priest who was declared a saint for swapping his life for a stranger's at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941. Show more In October 1982, the Polish priest, Father Maximilian Kolbe, ...
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