Tuesday, August 14, 2012

St Maximilian Kolbe (OF)/Vigil of the Assumption (EF/Benedictine), Aug 14


Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe, O.F.M. Conv. was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz, in 1939.  You can read more about his inspiring life here.

Today is also the Vigil of the Assumption in the traditional calendar.




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