Saints' Corner
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Featured Saint
St. Maximilian Kolbe
Priest, Franciscan Friar, Martyr of Charity
A Franciscan priest and pioneering Catholic media pioneer, Kolbe was arrested by the Nazis for hiding refugees and publishing against the regime — and in Auschwitz, volunteered to die in place of a stranger, a husband and father, condemned to a starvation cell.
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St. Josephine Bakhita
Virgin, Religious Sister (Canossian Daughters of Charity), Patroness of Sudan and South Sudan, Patroness of Trafficking Survivors
Kidnapped and enslaved as a child in Sudan, so traumatized she forgot her own birth name, Bakhita endured years of brutal abuse before finding freedom, faith, and religious life in Italy — and became one of the clearest living proofs that forgiveness can outlast even the worst evil done to a person.
St. Maximilian Kolbe
Priest, Franciscan Friar, Martyr of Charity
A Franciscan priest and pioneering Catholic media pioneer, Kolbe was arrested by the Nazis for hiding refugees and publishing against the regime — and in Auschwitz, volunteered to die in place of a stranger, a husband and father, condemned to a starvation cell.