How did st. maximilian kolbe die
How did st. maximilian kolbe die
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St. Maximilian Kolbe: martyr of supreme sacrifice of life
By Robin Gomes
The Catholic Church on Saturday celebrated the feast of Polish martyr, St. Maximilian Kolbe. The 47-year-old Franciscan Conventual priest volunteered to die in place of a stranger 80 years ago on August 14, at the German Nazi concentration and death camp of Auschwitz in Poland.
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Kolbe, the founder of the worldwide evangelization movement, Militia Immaculatae, and a missionary in Japan in the 1930s, faithfully followed the path of Christ’s sacrifice and His words in John’s Gospel: “No one has a greater love than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends”.
The priest was arrested in February 1941 on charges of aiding Jews and the Polish underground and was imprisoned in Warsaw. He was deported to the death camp of Auschwitz, Poland, where he was stripped of his Franciscan habit and assigned prisoner number 16670. He was forced to the most humiliating jobs, such as c