On 14 August the Church remembers Maximilian Kolbe (1894 – 1941) a Polish Catholic Priest and Franciscan, who was put to death in a Nazi concentration camp because of his faith. But who was Maximilian Kolbe? Maximilian was born Raymond Kolbe to a pious Catholic family near Lodz in Poland in 1894. In 1906 he … Continue reading Maximilian Kolbe