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The Catholic Church venerates him as the patron saint of amateur radio operators, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, and prisoners. [3] John Paul II declared him "the patron of our difficult century". [4] [5] His feast day is 14 August, the day of his martyrdom.
St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, patron saint of journalists, prisoners, and drug addicts, ... a Catholic religious order, studying in Lviv, a city that is now in Ukraine. In 1910, at the age of 16 ...
Servers the sick - Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur [26] Shepherds - Bernadette of Lourdes, [5] Cuthbert, Cuthman, Dominic of Silos, Drogo of Sebourg, George, Germaine Cousin, Julian the Hospitaller, Raphael the Archangel, Regina, Solange; Shoemakers - Crispin, Gangulphus, Peter the Apostle, Theobald of Provins; Shorthand writers ...
The cause for his canonization commenced after his death and led to his beatification in mid-1925 and his canonization two decades later on 22 June 1947; he is a patron for Italian prisoners and prisoners amongst other things. [5] [7]
Edith Stein was murdered in the gas chamber at Birkenau on 9 August 1942, and is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe. Stein was born into an observant Jewish family, but had become an agnostic by her teenage years.
His memorial day is May 8 in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Victor is the patron saint of prisoners and exiles. Victor is the patron saint of prisoners and exiles.
The current infobox has him listed as being the patron saint of "prisoners, drug addicts, families, journalists, amateur radio operators, pro-life movement, people with eating disorders", The citation given states that "Kolbe is the patron saint of drug users, prisoners, and journalists", I am not fully sure where the other ones came from here ...
He is the patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, all those seeking racial harmony, and animals. He was noted for his work on behalf of the poor, establishing an orphanage and a children's hospital. He maintained an austere lifestyle, which included fasting and abstaining from meat.