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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Aug. 14, 1941, the eve of the Solemnity of the Assumption, in Block 11 of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a man who had the number 16670 sewn onto his prison uniform was killed by an injection of ...

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 ...

Relics of Auschwitz martyr St. Maximilian Kolbe were installed in a chapel in Poland's parliament before Christmas. The relics were transferred Dec. 17 to the Mother of God, Mother of the Church ...

Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan priest, missionary and martyr, will soon be celebrated throughout the Church on his feast day, August 14. The saint died in the concentration camp at ...

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 ...

St. Maximian Kolbe, during his missionary travels to and from Japan, China and India, visted Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) in 1930, 1932 and 1933. The impressions he formed during these visits as ...