Saint Maximilian Kolbe

@garysibi (702)
Chicago, Illinois
August 14, 2019 5:37pm CST
On 14 Aug the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe. He was a Franciscan Friar and priest who was imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. He died on 14 Aug 1941 after offering to take the place of another prisoner who was scheduled to be executed by being starved to death but who had a wife and children.
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
14 Aug 19
Wow, you don't hear of anyone doing that these days.
Gary Sibio
@garysibi (702)
• Chicago, Illinois
15 Aug 19
Besides him, Edith Stein, a Catholic nun, and one other man whose name escapes me at the moment, also gave their lives in place of another at one of the concentration camps.
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
15 Aug 19
@garysibi I am speechless to read this.
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snowy
@snowy22315 (208801)
• United States
15 Aug 19
I think he is someone who should be a candidate for sainthood personally.
Gary Sibio
@garysibi (702)
• Chicago, Illinois
15 Aug 19
He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1981.