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St. Maximilian Kolbe

Maximilian Kolbe, 1939. | Public Domain.

Saint Maximilian Kolbe's Life As a Child Prepared His Path to Holiness

Aug 14, 2023

On August 14, 1941, the eve of the Feast 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 carbolic acid. 

St. Maximilian Kolbe. Public Domain

80 Years Ago St. Maximilian Kolbe Gave Life at Camp in Poland to Save Family Man

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“Let us place all families of the world under the mantle of Mary, under the intercession of Maximilian Kolbe.’

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