19th Week of Ordinary Time C – Thursday – Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr
Today we remember Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan friar whose life was consumed with love for Christ and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Before the Second World War, he was a missionary, a publisher, and the founder of a great Marian centre in Poland. But it was in the darkness of Auschwitz that his light shone brightest.