Saint Maximilian Kolbe: Martyr of Charity

Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941) was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar whose life was marked by profound devotion to the Virgin Mary and tireless evangelization. He founded the Militia Immaculatae to promote Marian consecration and launched influential publications in Poland and Japan. During World War II, Kolbe was arrested by the Nazis for sheltering refugees, including Jews, and sent to Auschwitz.

In July 1941, after a prisoner escaped, the camp's commandant selected ten men to die by starvation. One of them, Franciszek Gajowniczek, cried out for his family and Kolbe stepped forward to take his place. For two weeks, Kolbe ministered to the condemned men, leading them in prayer and song until he was the last survivor, ultimately killed by lethal injection on August 14, the eve of the Assumption. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1982 as a "martyr of charity."

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