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Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFMConv (born Raymund Kolbe; Polish: Maksymilian Maria Kolbe; [a] 8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941) was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
Museum of St. Maximilian Kolbe "There was a Man" (in Polish: Muzeum św. Maksymiliana "Był człowiek" ) – is a museum, located in Niepokalanów monastery in central Poland, 42 km from Warsaw . The museum is dedicated to the life and work of its founder – father Maximilian Kolbe , evangelization activity of Niepokalanów, and the Franciscan ...
It was founded in autumn 1927 by Friar Minor Conventual – Maximilian Kolbe, who was later canonized as a saint-martyr of the Catholic Church. [1] Presbytery and the southern wing of the basilica in Niepokalanów St Maximilian's room (replica) Chapel of perpetual adoration Niepokalanów – pilgrim's hostel Old wooden chapel (1927-29)
Smith, Jeremiah J., Saint Maximilian Kolbe: Knight of the Immaculata, 2008 ISBN 0-89555-619-7; Manteau-Bonamy, H. M., Immaculate Conception and the Holy Spirit: The Marian Teachings of St. Maximilian Kolbe, 2008 ISBN 978-0913382004
St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, patron saint of journalists, prisoners, and drug addicts, was a Polish priest who was murdered in Auschwitz after volunteering to die in the place of another.
Karl Fritzsch (10 July 1903 – 2 May 1945) was a German SS official who served as deputy and acting commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940 to 1941. Fritzsch is best known as the official responsible for the death of priest Maximilian Kolbe and, according to Rudolf Höss, first suggesting using poisonous gas Zyklon B and experimenting with gas chambers for the purpose of mass ...
When priest Maximilian Kolbe heard Gajowniczek cry out in agony over the fate of his family, he offered himself instead, for which he was later canonized. The switch was permitted. After two weeks, Kolbe (prisoner number 16670) and the three other survivors were put to death by an injection of carbolic acid. [2] [1] Gajowniczek as a soldier ...
These were the closest collaborators of St Maximilian Kolbe in the fight for God's cause and together suffered and helped each other spiritually in their offering their lives at Auschwitz; Ludwik Roch Gietyngier, priest from Częstochowa (1904–1941 KL Dachau) Maksymilian Binkiewicz, priest (1913–24 July 1942, beaten, died in KL Dachau)