Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest, Martyr (1894 – 1941)

Today is his Feast Day.. He was born on 8 January 1894 in occupied Poland: he joined the Franciscans in Lwów in 1910, and was ordained eight years later, as his country became free and independent for the first time in over 120 years. He believed that the world was passing through a time of…