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St. Maximilian Kolbe: Some Lessons
The great saint was a pastor to the end
By John M. Grondelski | August 14th 2023 8:15 PMSeventy-two years ago today, St. Maximilian Kolbe was murdered by a poison injection at Auschwitz, after about two weeks in a starvation bunker. Most probably on August 15 -- the feast of she to whom he was devoted -- his emaciated body went up in smoke through Auschwitz's crematorium chimney.…
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