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Writings of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe #1
Spisi I. Sv. Maksimilijan M. Kolbe
Pisma sv. Maksimilijana Kolbea
Sveti Maksimilijan Kolbe (1894.–1941.) danas je poznat ne samo u Katoličkoj Crkvi nego i u cijelom svijetu. Poznat je kao znameniti Poljak i franjevac, gorljiv štovatelj Majke Božje Bezgrešne, utemeljitelj Vojske Bezgrešne, misionar– graditelj poljskoga i japanskoga Grada Bezgrešne (Niepokalanówa), prethodnik apostolata suvremenih sredstava društvene komunikacije, a prije svega kao apostol ljubavi koji je u ekstremno teškim uvjetima hitlerovskoga koncentracijskog logora u Auschwitzu pokazao što znači biti čovjek dajući iz ljubavi život za bližnjega.
Sveti Maksimilijan Kolbe (1894.–1941.) danas je poznat ne samo u Katoličkoj Crkvi nego i u cijelom svijetu. Poznat je kao znameniti Poljak i franjevac, gorljiv štovatelj Majke Božje Bezgrešne, utemeljitelj Vojske Bezgrešne, misionar– graditelj poljskoga i japanskoga Grada Bezgrešne (Niepokalanówa), prethodnik apostolata suvremenih sredstava društvene komunikacije, a prije svega kao apostol ljubavi koji je u ekstremno teškim uvjetima hitlerovskoga koncentracijskog logora u Auschwitzu pokazao što znači biti čovjek dajući iz ljubavi život za bližnjega.
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1380 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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About the author
Maximilian Kolbe
23 books30 followersSt. Maximilian was born Raymond Kolbe in Poland, January 8, 1894. In 1910, he entered the Conventual Franciscan Order. He was sent to study in Rome where he was ordained a priest in 1918.
Father Maximilian returned to Poland in 1919 and began spreading his Militia of the Immaculata movement of Marian consecration (whose members are also called MIs), which he founded on October 16, 1917. In 1927, he established an evangelization center near Warsaw called Niepokalanów, the "City of the Immaculate." By 1939, the City had expanded from eighteen friars to nearly 900, making it the largest Catholic religious house in the world.
To better "win the world for the Immaculata," the friars utilized the most modern printing and administrative techniques. This enabled them to publish countless catechetical and devotional tracts, a daily newspaper with a circulation of 230,000 and a monthly magazine with a circulation of over one million. Maximilian started a radio station and planned to build a motion picture studio--he was a true "apostle of the mass media." He established a City of the Immaculata in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1930, and envisioned missionary centers worldwide.
Maximilian was a ground-breaking theologian. His insights into the Immaculate Conception anticipated the Marian theology of the Second Vatican Council and further developed the Church's understanding of Mary as "Mediatrix" of all the graces of the Trinity, and as "Advocate" for God's people.
In 1941, the Nazis imprisoned Father Maximilian in the Auschwitz death camp. There he offered his life for another prisoner and was condemned to slow death in a starvation bunker. On August 14, 1941, his impatient captors ended his life with a fatal injection. Pope John Paul II canonized Maximilian as a "Martyr of Charity" and “Patron Saint of our difficult century” in 1982. St. Maximilian Kolbe is the patron of journalists, families, prisoners, the pro-life movement and the chemically addicted.
Father Maximilian returned to Poland in 1919 and began spreading his Militia of the Immaculata movement of Marian consecration (whose members are also called MIs), which he founded on October 16, 1917. In 1927, he established an evangelization center near Warsaw called Niepokalanów, the "City of the Immaculate." By 1939, the City had expanded from eighteen friars to nearly 900, making it the largest Catholic religious house in the world.
To better "win the world for the Immaculata," the friars utilized the most modern printing and administrative techniques. This enabled them to publish countless catechetical and devotional tracts, a daily newspaper with a circulation of 230,000 and a monthly magazine with a circulation of over one million. Maximilian started a radio station and planned to build a motion picture studio--he was a true "apostle of the mass media." He established a City of the Immaculata in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1930, and envisioned missionary centers worldwide.
Maximilian was a ground-breaking theologian. His insights into the Immaculate Conception anticipated the Marian theology of the Second Vatican Council and further developed the Church's understanding of Mary as "Mediatrix" of all the graces of the Trinity, and as "Advocate" for God's people.
In 1941, the Nazis imprisoned Father Maximilian in the Auschwitz death camp. There he offered his life for another prisoner and was condemned to slow death in a starvation bunker. On August 14, 1941, his impatient captors ended his life with a fatal injection. Pope John Paul II canonized Maximilian as a "Martyr of Charity" and “Patron Saint of our difficult century” in 1982. St. Maximilian Kolbe is the patron of journalists, families, prisoners, the pro-life movement and the chemically addicted.
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May 25, 2020
I wanted to read Kolbe's articles (they are in the second volume), but I started reading his letters first and I loved this book more than I expected. Some letters are really nothing special, but whenever I read something that saints wrote, even when they wrote about trivial things, you can just feel God in everything. Another thing I loved is that I felt connected to st. Maximiliam, as if he was writing to me. I really developed a relationship with st. Maximilian while reading this book and I also have a better relationship with Mother Mary.
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