Saints' Corner

Walking with the Communion of Saints — men and women whose lives show us Christ. Free for everyone.

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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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Venerable Francis Libermann

Priest, Founder of the Society of the Holy Heart of Mary; Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans)

Born Jacob Libermann, the son of a rabbi, he converted from Judaism to Catholicism as a young man, was ordained despite years of delay from severe illness, and went on to found a missionary society for the evangelization of Africa and the African diaspora — which he then merged with an older struggling community to create the modern Congregation of the Holy Spirit (the Spiritans), still serving across Africa and the world today.