On Aug 14 1941 St Maximilian Kolbe died in a starvation bunker in Auschwitz where he had been consigned for weeks with 9 others as punishment for another prisoner’s escape. Kolbe, a Franciscan priest, had volunteered to take the place of another prisoner with a wife and children.

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That other prisoner was alive to attend Kolbe’s canonization in 1982.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @Atticus1971
I’ve stood in front of this cell. It’s one of two places at Auschwitz where you are not permitted to take pictures. The other place is the room where the human hair that was kept is on display.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @JamesMartinSJ
God love him, he was not a perfect person, but his thoughts were bright and he lived diligently and died to himself in the faith. When I look at horrors, I think of him.
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Check out Wojchiech Kilar’s stunning composition Requiem por le Pere Kolbe. music.apple.com/us/album/req…
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
I’ve had a picture of him up above my desk to remind me of what true Christianity is.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
My mother carried a card with a picture of him & a prayer in her missal. I have it now
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
One of the forgotten 6 million.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @MSMWatchdog2013
Oh my.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @calgary_buffalo
Meanwhile the Vatikan was collaborating with the Nazis and helped them to escape after the end of WWII
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @yourauntemma
🙏🙏🙏
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