portraitsofsaints:Happy Feast DaySaint Maximilian Kolbe1894 - 1941Feast day: August 14Patronage: dru
portraitsofsaints:Happy Feast DaySaint Maximilian Kolbe1894 - 1941Feast day: August 14Patronage: drug addicts, families, imprisoned people, journalists, pro-life movementSt. Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Due to his efforts to promote consecration and entrustment to Mary, he is also known as the Apostle of Consecration to Mary.{website} -- source link
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