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Saint for the Month
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 ST.
MAXIMILLIAN KOLBE
- Feastday: August
14th
- Great Apostle of
the Immaculate in Japan
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Maximilian was born in 1894 in Poland and became a Franciscan.
He contracted tuberculosis and, though he recovered, he remained frail all
his life. Before his ordination as a priest, Maximillian founded the
Immaculata Movement devoted to Our Lady. After receiving a doctorate in
theology, he spread the Movement through a magazine entitled "The
Knight of the Immaculata" and helped form a community of 800 men, the
largest in the world.
Maximilian went to Japan where he built a comparable monastery and then on
to India where he furthered the Movement. In 1936 he returned home because
of ill health. After the Nazi invasion in 1939, he was imprisoned and
released for a time. But 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. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1981. His
feast day is August 14th.
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