It’s one of the most cathartic and healing stories — particularly for those who struggle with hope and doubt.’ ...

St. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE The Saint of Auschwitz By Jean-Francoi Vivier (author) and Denoel (illustrator) Sophia Institute Press, 2020 52 pages, $14.95 To order: SophiaInstitute.com or (800) 888-9344 ...

Remembering St. Maximilian Kolbe, who gave his life at Auschwitz out of love for another — a powerful witness of faith, ...

Dolls, clothing, pillows and socks represent St. Maximilian Kolbe as a comic-like character with half an Auschwitz uniform. Retailers say the products honor the saint and evangelize.

Saint Maximilian Kolbe laid down his life for a stranger at Auschwitz, in a striking imitation of the Cross. Wikimedia Commons One night in July, an inmate ­escaped from Kolbe’s block.

ZAGREB, Croatia — People today honor the sacrifice St. Maximilian Kolbe made in giving his life for others, but prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp had some trouble understanding his ...

The Primate of All Ireland on Sunday honored Auschwitz martyr St. Maximilian Kolbe. Archbishop Eamon Martin presided at an event in Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, on Sept. 5 commemorating the 80th ...

Sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, a priest comes forward to take the place of a fellow prisoner condemned to death. The story of Maximilian Kolbe, whose remarkable life prepared him for ...

Eighty years ago St. Maximilian Kolbe died in Auschwitz on August 14 after volunteering to take the place of a father in the concentration camp’s starvation bunker. Today devotion to the saint ...

One such hero was Maximilian Kolbe. Born in 1894 in Poland, Kolbe was a Catholic priest and a friar who served in a monastery during World War II.