St. Maximilian Kolbe cultivated a particular devotion to Our Lady under the title of the “Immaculate Conception.” He launched the “Knights of the Immaculata,” and Marian feasts were ...

A brief snippet of his life story. 1. St. Maximilian Kolbe had a great devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes. As a young priest friar, he faced the possibility of amputation of his thumb or even his arm ...

As World War II raged around him in Poland, St. Maximilian ... in 1930, Kolbe made a pilgrimage to the Chapel of the Miraculous Medal on Rue de Bac in Paris. The Chapel of Our Lady of the ...

Last year, the Catholic Church in Poland shared a photo commemorating the 81st anniversary of St. Maximilian Kolbe’s arrest by ... provincial of the Our Lady of the Angels Province, gave a ...

Kolbe had a strong connection to the Virgin Mary. He claimed to have a vision of the Catholic Church's most important woman. "I prayed very hard to Our Lady to tell me what would happen to me.