Why is St. Maximillian Kolbe the patron saint of journalists?? May St. Kolbe pray for Steve.
Years later, after the war, the Polish bishops sent an official letter to the Holy See claiming that Fr Kolbe's magazine had prepared the Polish nation to endure and survive the horrors of the war that was soon to follow.
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the link to this comprehensive article is in my previous post. He was a brilliant, motivated and energetic man.
The nazis killed him by injection because he would not die of the starvation to which he was being subjected.
They burned his body and scattered his ashes because they feared the kind of influence he had had at Auchwitz.