SAINT MAXIMILIAN KOLBE: MARTYR OF AUSCHWITZ

Father Maximilian Kolbe was a martyr of charity. He was able to give his life to save the life of another prisoner, a father of a family, who had been chosen to go to the bunker of death. A prisoner had escaped from the concentration camp and the Germans chose 10 in his place to punish them with death by starvation. Father Kolbe asked to replace one of them; and when the camp commander asked him who he was, he was able to tell him: I am a Catholic priest. From that day on, his memory remain...