Memorial
Saint Maximilian Kolbe
- Feast day
- August 14
- Patron of
- drug addicts and prisoners
- Origin
- Polish
Life
Maximilian Kolbe was a Franciscan friar who volunteered to take the place of a stranger condemned to death in Auschwitz. He comforted his fellow prisoners with prayer until he was killed by lethal injection.
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