Rather than beginning with St. Maximilian Kolbe’s early life or missionary work, new film “Triumph of the Heart” opens at the moment many accounts conclude: his entry into the starvation cell.
St. Maximilian Kolbe
Room With a Maximilian View
A portion of this 402-year-old monastery, where St. Maximilian Kolbe studied in Rome, is now an award winning hotel that helps fund the formation of Conventual Franciscans. It also includes a museum dedicated to the saint.
Museum Shows Catholics Helped Jewish People During the Holocaust
There is a small museum in Assisi, Italy, dedicated to preserving the memory of priests and nuns who saved 300 Jews during the Holocaust by forging documents, sheltering them in convents and smuggling them out of the country.
New Research Details Catholic Inmates at Auschwitz
A Polish researcher has published the first study of religious practices among Christian prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the 75-year anniversary of the Nazi-run death camp’s liberation was marked in Israel and Poland.