ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 14th of August WELCOME! SAINT MAXIMILIAN KOLBE, PRIEST AND MARTYR Saint Maximilian Kolbe was born in 1894 in Poland and became a Franciscan. He contracted tuberculosis and, though he recovered, he remained frail all his life. Before his ordination as a priest, Maximilian founded the Immaculata Movement devoted to Our Lady. After receiving a doctorate in theology, he spread the Movement through a magazine entitled ‘The Knights of the Immaculata’ and helped form a community of 800 men, the largest in the world. THE KNIGHTS OF THE IMMACULATA Maximilian went to Japan where he built a comparable monastery and then on to India where he furthered the Movement. In 1936 he returned home because of ill health. After the Nazi invasion in 1939, he was imprisoned and released for a time. But in 1941 he was arrested again and sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. HE OFFERED HIMSELF IN PLACE OF A YOUNG HUSBAND AND FATHER On July 31...