Aug. 14 is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a saint best known for his heroic martyrdom at Auschwitz in 1941, when he volunteered to be executed in place of another prisoner. Like many Catholic ...

St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz, is one of the 20th century's most notable saints. But behind his trademark glasses, deep devotion to the ...

Anthony D’Ambrosio knows what it is to hit a wall. For years, he endured an unexplainable insomnia that often granted him only 20 minutes to just two hours of sleep. The resulting exhaustion and ...

St. Maximilian Kolbe is pictured in an undated black-and-white file photo. The Polish priest gave his life in place of a young father condemned to execution by the Nazis. His feast day is Aug. 14, the ...

August 14 marked the 75th anniversary of the death of St. Maximilian Kolbe, OFM Conv., Polish Roman Catholic priest killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz. He was born Rajmund Kolbe in 1894 at Zdunska Wola ...

St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe is chronicled in Martin Scorsese's new Fox Nation series 'The Saints' St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe found his calling at the age of 9 when he experienced a vision of the Virgin ...