St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Martyr of Charity Poster
St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Martyr of Charity. Original oil on canvas Print, Value Poster Paper (Matte) Maksymilian Maria Kolbe, actually Rajmund Kolbe (born January 8, 1894 in Zduńska Wola, Poland, died August 14, 1941 in KL Auschwitz) - Polish conventual Franciscan, priest, guardian, missionary, martyr, saint of the Catholic Church. Founder of the Rycerstwo Niepokalanej organization, the monthly "Rycerz Niepokalanej" and the Radio Niepokalanów, and the most numerous monastery in the world in Niepokalanów (762 people in 1939). St. Maximilian was a priest in a Nazi concentration camp -- prisoner number 16670 -- during WWII who took the place of another sentenced to death. The first Polish martyr of World War II to be elevated to the altars during his beatification as a confessor in 1971, and then canonization as a martyr in 1982. "For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more." St. Maximilian Kolbe
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