Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Saint Maximilian Kolbe's life as a child prepared his path to holiness

Maximilian Kolbe, 1939. / Public Domain. Rome Newsroom, Aug 14, 2023 / 15:16 pm (CNA). On August 14, 1941, the eve of the Feast of the Assumption, in Block 11 of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a man who had the number 16670 sewn onto his prison uniform was killed by an injection of carbolic acid.  […]