St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz, is one of the 20th century's most notable saints. But behind his trademark glasses, deep devotion to the ...

Aug. 14 is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a saint best known for his heroic martyrdom at Auschwitz in 1941, when he volunteered to be executed in place of another prisoner. Like many Catholic ...

On Aug. 14, 1941, the eve of the Solemnity of the Assumption, in Block 11 of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a man who had the number 16670 sewn onto his prison uniform was killed by an injection of ...

St. Maximilian Kolbe is depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Josaphat Church in the Queens borough of New York City. The Polish priest gave his life in place of a young father condemned to ...

A Life Given traces the final days of the Polish priest in Auschwitz’s hunger bunker. Anthony D'Ambrosio's film hits theaters ...

RICHARDSON, Texas — Eighty years after the death of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Catholic priest who offered his life in Auschwitz so another man could live, his story is being brought to the big screen ...

In October, I traveled to Poland to interview director Anthony D’Ambrosio and the cast of "The Triumph of the Heart," a film chronicling the final weeks of St. Maximillian Kolbe's life in the ...

My dear friend Russell Contreras is the New Mexico-based justice and race reporter for Axios, a devout Catholic — and a troll. We have long mocked each other on social media, mostly to amuse ourselves ...

Father Irudayaraj leads a pilgrimage to Poland and Medjugorje to visit sites related to St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. John Paul II, and St. Faustina.

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. In February 1941, Father Maximilian Kolbe was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz. He was a Polish Monk who ...