Saint Maximilian Kolbe, please pray for our world.

Maximilian Kolbe was an amazing man. ( from Pat's Faith Blog )

"Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe, O.F.M. Conv., (Polish: Maksymilian Maria Kolbe [maksɨˌmiljan ˌmarja ˈkɔlbɛ]; 8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941) 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."

His "Immaculata Friars utilized the most modern printing and administrative techniques in publishing catechetical and devotional tracts, a daily newspaper with a circulation of 230,000 and a monthly magazine with a circulation of over one million. Kolbe also used radio to spread his Catholic faith and to speak out against the atrocities of the Nazi regime. He is the only canonized saint to have held an amateur radio license, with the call sign SP3RN.

He also had a volunteer fire department made up of his friars which exists to this day. Maximilian used the press for his works. 

 " I think I will adopt him as my patron saint." Pat

"Me too" Maureen

Pat documented our Pilgrimage to Poland 9 years ago here

Auschwitz Birkenau

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The information below is from Pat's Faith Blog

Thursday, January 22, 2015
Krakow

Monday, May 26, 2014
Journey into the Mercy of God - my pilgrimage to Poland

Monday, May 26, 2014
My pilgrimage to Poland - Zakopane

Wednesday May 28, 2014
The Miracle of the Rainbow

Thursday, May 29, 2014
My pilgrimage to Poland - Birthplace of Saint John Paul II and the Weeping Madonna

Friday, May 30, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - short snippets

Friday, May 30, 2014
My pilgrimage to Poland - wise words from our pastors

Friday, May 30, 2014
My pilgrimage to Poland - Wszystkich Swietych

Friday, May 30, 2014
My pilgrimage to Poland - Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe

Friday, May 30, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - Claude Newman

Saturday, May 31, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - some of God's creation

Sunday, June 1, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - crosses

Monday, June 2, 2014
My pilgrimage to Poland - devotion to Mary

Thursday, June 5, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - slideshow of the pilgrims

Saturday, June 7, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - St. Faustina

Monday, June 16, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - random pictures

Monday, June 16, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - the Pilgrims

Wednesday, June 18, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - in honor of the deceased

Thursday, June 19, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - Tribute to John Paul II

Saturday, June 21, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - the Feast of Corpus Christi

Monday, June 30, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - Poles will disappear from the world

Friday, July 11, 2014
My Pilgrimage to Poland - Goodbye Poland