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Saint Maksymilian Kolbe

1894-1941

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Father Maksymilian Kolbe was the founder of the great Catholic publishing center in Niepokolanow and had previously worked as a missionary in Japan. When a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941, Father Kolbe offered voluntarily to die instead of a fellow inmate. The Nazis agreed to the exchange and the heroic priest was starved to death. The man he saved is still living.
 

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• Kolbe Novena in Honor of the Immaculate Conception & Novena in Honorof St. Maximilian Kolbe
• Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of Auschwitz, by Stone, Elaine M.
• Maximilian Kolbe: Authentic Franciscan, by Romb, Anselm W.
• Maximilian Kolbe: The Apostle of Auschwitz, by Forristal, Demond
• Kolbe Reader, by Romb, Anselm W.
• St. Maximilian Kolbe, by Laferte, Jean-Marie
• One More Gift: Total Consecration to the Immaculata According to the Spirituality of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, by Faccenda, Luigi
• The Death Camp Proved Him Real, 1971, by Winowska, Maria
• Saint of Auschwitz, 1982, by Dewar, Diana
• A Man for Others, 1982, by Treece, Patricia

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• Rycerz Niepokalanej ("The Knight of Mary Immaculate")
• Founded the City of Mary Immaculate ("Niepokalanσw"), 1927 - a religious center