St. Maximilian Kolbe - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Maximilian Kolbe - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online



St. Maximilian Kolbe, in 1941 he was arrested again and sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. On July 31, 1941, in reprisal for one prisoner's escape, ten men were chosen to die. Father Kolbe offered himself in place of a young husband and father. And he was the last to die, enduring two weeks of starvation, thirst, and neglect.Feastday Aug.14

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