"That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith. Then she came to me

holding two crowns, one white, the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns.

The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr.

I said that I would accept them both."

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St. Maximilian Kolbe is the patron saint of Kolbe Prison Ministries. Born Rajmund Kolbe in Poland in 1894, Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur-radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications.

On October 10 1982 Pope John Paul II canonized Kolbe and declared him a martyr of charity. The Catholic Church venerates him as the patron saint of amateur-radio operators, of drug addicts, of political prisoners, of families, of journalists, of prisoners, and of the pro-life movement.

Saint Maximilian Kolbe – HM Televison Documentary

The Extraordinary Story Of One Man’s Sacrifice

Short Intro to the Life of Maximilian Kolbe