Kolbe, Maximilian

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    Maximilian Kolbe, O.F.M. Conv. was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz.

    He was canonized in 1982 and declared a martyr of charity. He is the patron saint of drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, Pope John Paul II declared him The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century.


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