American Maria Kolbe
Maximilian Maria Kolbe was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar. He was born January 8, 1894 and died August 14, 1941. He was beatified by pope Paul the VI October 17, 1971, and his feast day is August 14. He was canonized by pope John Paul II on October 10, 1982. There are many interesting things to know about this saint, and I will share a few.
Baptized as Raymund Kolbe, this saint was a normal child, but there is this one exception. One night, Our Lady appeared to him in a dream holding a white crown and a red crown. She asked him if he was willing to accept either of them. The white one meant that he would persevere in purity, and the red one meant that he would become become a martyr. He said that he would accept them both. So, Fr. Kolbe …show more content…
By the time he was in his early thirties, Fr. Kolbe founded a religious group focused on evangelization. St. Maximilian founded a religious house near Warsaw, Niepokalanów, known as the City of the Immaculate. They started with a handful of friars. Within a decade it grew holding nearly 1,000 people. He and a some of his brothers travelled to Japan, where they opened another house in Nagasaki.
He was truly a master of the new media. Fr. Kolbe was a man of his time and very modern. The friars’ used modern printing technology for their material. They had started a radio station and Fr. Kolbe even had plans for a movie studio.
Fr. Kolbe has a statue at Westminster Abbey. St. Maximilian Kolbe is among twenty modern martyrs from across the world who have a statue on the Façade of Westminster Abbey. His statue can be seen above the west door of the Abbey, along with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr., and seventeen others.
You can acquire relics of St. Maximilian. Though St. Maximilian’s body was burned at Auschwitz, there are relics available. Years before the saint’s death, his barber started saving clippings of Fr. Kolbe’s hair and beard. Parishes may obtain a relic through Niepokalanów. They can also provide prayer cards with
Baptized as Raymund Kolbe, this saint was a normal child, but there is this one exception. One night, Our Lady appeared to him in a dream holding a white crown and a red crown. She asked him if he was willing to accept either of them. The white one meant that he would persevere in purity, and the red one meant that he would become become a martyr. He said that he would accept them both. So, Fr. Kolbe …show more content…
By the time he was in his early thirties, Fr. Kolbe founded a religious group focused on evangelization. St. Maximilian founded a religious house near Warsaw, Niepokalanów, known as the City of the Immaculate. They started with a handful of friars. Within a decade it grew holding nearly 1,000 people. He and a some of his brothers travelled to Japan, where they opened another house in Nagasaki.
He was truly a master of the new media. Fr. Kolbe was a man of his time and very modern. The friars’ used modern printing technology for their material. They had started a radio station and Fr. Kolbe even had plans for a movie studio.
Fr. Kolbe has a statue at Westminster Abbey. St. Maximilian Kolbe is among twenty modern martyrs from across the world who have a statue on the Façade of Westminster Abbey. His statue can be seen above the west door of the Abbey, along with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr., and seventeen others.
You can acquire relics of St. Maximilian. Though St. Maximilian’s body was burned at Auschwitz, there are relics available. Years before the saint’s death, his barber started saving clippings of Fr. Kolbe’s hair and beard. Parishes may obtain a relic through Niepokalanów. They can also provide prayer cards with