The Church celebrated St. Maximilian Kolbe's feast day on Sunday, just weeks after the Pope visited the martyr's cell at Auschwitz. Watch: | Catholic News Agency

Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan priest, missionary and martyr, is celebrated throughout the Church today, August 14. The saint died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, during World War II, and is remembered as a “martyr of charity” for dying in place of another prisoner who had a wife and children. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1982. Here are some facts you might not have known about this beloved saint: | Catholic News Agency

The Feast of St. Maximillian Kolbe - August 14. St. Maximilian, pray for us He was born on 8 January 1894 in occupied Poland: he joined the Franciscans in Lwów in 1910 and was ordained eight years later, as his country became free and independent for the first time in over 120 years. He believed that the world was passing through a time of intense spiritual crisis and that Christians must fight for the world’s salvation with all the means of modern communication. He founded a newspaper, and a so