Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2015

St. Maximilian Kolbe on Love

St. Maximillian Kolbe on Love

Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz to spare the life of another inmate with a family. In his prison cell, witnesses reported that Kolbe led others in prayer to our Lady.  After two weeks of starvation in dehydration, the guards injected Kolbe with carbonic acid.  His remains were cremated on August 15th, the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.



Friday, August 3, 2012

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Corrie ten Boom on Adversity


What makes this pearl of wisdom so poignant is that Corrie ten Boom was an ordinary Dutch Christian citizen who survived interment in a Nazi concentration camp for hiding Jews in her watch shop.  Yet the faith of this seemingly simple soul understands some of the transcendental mysteries of life.