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🌹 Blessed Feast Day of Saint Maximilian Kolbe 🌹“Chapel of St. Maximilian Kolbe - Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari - Venice Italy”… As they were being marched away to the starvation bunkers, Number 16670 dared to step from the line. “I would like to take that man’s place. He has a wife and children.” “Who are you?” “A priest.” No name, no mention of fame. Silence. The commandant, dumbfounded, perhaps with a fleeting thought of history, kicked Sergeant Francis Gajowniczek out of line and ordered Fr. Kolbe to go with the nine. In the “block of death,” they were ordered to strip naked, and their slow starvation began in darkness. But there was no screaming—the prisoners sang. By the eve of the Assumption, four were left alive. The jailer came to finish Kolbe off as he sat in a corner praying. He lifted his fleshless arm to receive the bite from the deadly hypodermic needle. They burned his body with all the others. Fr. Kolbe was beatified in 1971 and canonized in 1982. Saint Maximilian Kolbe, was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery near Warsaw, operating an amateur radio station, and founding or running several other organizations and publications. Kolbe composed the Immaculata prayer as a prayer of consecration to the Immaculata. 🌹All Sacred/Fine Art: www.etsy.com/shop/DinoCarbetta 🌹All pictures: www.dinocarbetta.com #dinocarbetta.com #Italy #rome #sacredart #RightToLife #MotherMary #religiousart #italia #italianlandscapes #catholicart #fineart #jesuschrist #virginmary #sacredheart #holyspirit #immaculata #assisi #assisiitaly #saintfrancis #franciscan #saintmaximiliankolbe #catholic #stmaximiliankolbe #virginmary #immaculateheartofmary