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St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
St Maximilian Museum
Phone:
+46 8 64 22 22

Address:
St Maximilian Museum, Niepokalanow, Poland

Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe was a Polish 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 was active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur radio station , and founding or running several other organizations and publications. Kolbe was canonized on 10 October 1982 by Pope John Paul II, and declared a Martyr of charity. He is the patron saint of amateur radio operators, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, and the pro-life movement. John Paul II declared him The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century.Due to Kolbe's efforts to promote consecration and entrustment to Mary, he is known as the Apostle of Consecration to Mary.
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