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Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFMConv (born Raymund Kolbe; Polish: Maksymilian Maria Kolbe; [a] 8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941) was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
It was founded in autumn 1927 by Friar Minor Conventual – Maximilian Kolbe, who was later canonized as a saint-martyr of the Catholic Church. [1] Presbytery and the southern wing of the basilica in Niepokalanów St Maximilian's room (replica) Chapel of perpetual adoration Niepokalanów – pilgrim's hostel Old wooden chapel (1927-29)
The first idea to build a new church in Niepokalanów (or at least a large chapel), appeared before the Second World War. [3] In June 1933 the magazine "Rycerz Niepokalanej" ("The Knight of the Immaculate") wrote: It is necessary to build a new chapel, or – as some of the readers suggest – a church, because there is no room to accommodate all of us in this one.
Museum of St. Maximilian Kolbe "There was a Man" (in Polish: Muzeum św. Maksymiliana "Był człowiek" ) – is a museum, located in Niepokalanów monastery in central Poland, 42 km from Warsaw . The museum is dedicated to the life and work of its founder – father Maximilian Kolbe , evangelization activity of Niepokalanów, and the Franciscan ...
St. Casimir Parish - Roman Catholic Church in Terryville, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1906. It is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Hartford. In 2017, the parishes of Immaculate Conception, Saint Casimir, and Saint Thomas were merged by decree into the Parish of Saint Maximilian ...
They live in small communities of five or six spread over 4 priories: in Flassans-sur-Issole (France), in Peru, El Salvador and Argentina. Today there are 33 sisters of 7 different nationalities. The Saint-Maximilien-Kolbe Fraternity gathers lay people who live the charism of Points-Cœur in the world, under the name of Saint Maximilian Kolbe.
The Militia Immaculatae (meaning the "Army of the Immaculate One"), called in English the Knights of the Immaculata, [1] [2] is a worldwide Catholic evangelization movement founded by St. Maximilian Kolbe in 1917.
The Church of Saint Joseph and Saint Maximilian Kolbe (Spanish: Iglesia de San José y San Maximiliano Kolbe), popularly known as Iglesia de los Conventuales (due to its history as a former claustration convent), is a Roman Catholic parish church in Montevideo, Uruguay. [1]