St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz, is one of the 20th century's most notable saints. But behind his trademark glasses, deep devotion to the ...

Aug. 14 is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a saint best known for his heroic martyrdom at Auschwitz in 1941, when he volunteered to be executed in place of another prisoner. Like many Catholic ...

Conventual Franciscan Father Lucjan Krolikowski, 96, was among those present in Rome on Oct. 10, 1982, when Pope John Paul II canonized his fellow Pole, Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who was murdered ...

The relic of St. Maximilian Kolbe, who exchanged his life for that of another prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. in German occupied Poland, will be on display at Our Lady of the ...

The sainthood cause of a Swiss priest whose “supernatural conceptions” made an impression on St. Maximilian Kolbe has advanced, along with those of six other Servants of God. Franciscan Conventual ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- St. Ita's Catholic Church has installed a relic of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan friar martyred at the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp. Kolbe was a well known Polish ...

St. Ita in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood will now display relics of St. Maximilian Kolbe. John Paul the Second once called Kolbe the “patron saint of our difficult century.” The saint volunteered ...

Last month, Marie Elaine Quiray, the creator behind Blessed Friends Forever, an online retailer of Catholic children's items, posted a preview of her latest series of saint T-shirts, including a St.

The 84th anniversary of the death of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe- a Polish Franciscan priest who, during the Second World War, volunteered to die in place of a fellow prisoner, Franciszek Gajowniczek ...

My dear friend Russell Contreras is the New Mexico-based justice and race reporter for Axios, a devout Catholic — and a troll. We have long mocked each other on social media, mostly to amuse ourselves ...

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This week the Church will honor both St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross and St. Maximilian Kolbe, saints who were both killed at a Nazi concentration camp in the 1940s. St. Teresa Benedicta of the ...