And interesting Saint... I'm not much on Saints, but I'll take this one. He is the patron saint of drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners and the pro-life movement. Pope John Paul II declared him the “The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century”.Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
From: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...phy/Kolbe.html
Maximilian Kolbe (January 8, 1894–August 14, 1941), also known as Maksymilian or Massimiliano Maria Kolbe and “Apostle of Consecration to Mary,” born as Rajmund Kolbe, was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland.
My Grandmother lost all of her Aunts, Uncles and most of her cousins at Auschwitz. Some were machine gunned before the alies liberated the camp. Those who survived were slaves for those who manufactured goods for Hitler War Machine. This is why I boycott German made products...not even a spark plug. My grandmother hated Germans until the day she died.
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