Saint Maximilian Kolbe

by Fr Jeremiah J Smith OFM

St Maximilian Kolbe is famous as the saint of Auschwitz who volunteered to die of starvation and thirst in place of another prisoner.  But his heroic death in 1941 in the worst of the Nazi concentration camps was only the culmination of an amazing life - for St Maximilian was fired by the supernatural ideal of conquering for Christ through Mary all souls in the entire world.

Full of interesting stories, this little book describes his mischievous boyhood, his youthful prophetic vision of two crowns, his dream of martyrdom, his use of modern printing technology and his establishment of the largest religious community in the world at that time. 

TAN Books 2012

105 pages