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| Description | "There is no greater love than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends" ~ John 15:13 As a child, Maximilian Kolbe (1 894-1941), had a deep devotion to Our Lady. On one occasion he had a visio n in which Mary offered him either a white garment, symbolizing purity, o r a red one, symbolizing martyrdom. "I choose both," the boy replied. Following the German conquest of Poland in 1939, he was arrested, but soon released. Fr. Kolbe devoted himself to helping Jewish refugees; when the Nazis discovered this, he was again arrested and sent to the death ca mp Auschwitz in 1941. There he tried to set an example of faith and hope fo r the other prisoners. When a prisoner escaped from camp, the Germans chos e ten men at random and sentenced them to death by starvation; one of them was a Polish sergeant, Franciszek Gajowniczek. Fr. Kolbe left his place i n the ranks and asked permission from the commandant to take Gajowniczek's place. The shocked German officer agreed, and Kolbe a... |
| Date | Tue, February 4, 2020 |
| Repeat Type | Yearly
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| Time | All day event |
| Priority | 5-Medium |
| Access | Public |
| Created by | DEFAULT ADMINISTRATOR |
| Updated | Fri, July 30, 2021 8:34pm GMT |
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