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**The cell where Father Kolbe died is now a shrine. Maximilian Kolbe was beatified as Confessor by Paul VI in 1970, and canonized as Martyr by Pope John Paul II in 1981.**

I stood and prayed outside this cell during my pilgrimage to Eastern Europe three summers ago.

Welcome back, freeper Salvation! (Vanity)

2 posted on 08/14/2009 12:45:38 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)

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What a great man and a true hero of the Christian faith.

3 posted on 08/14/2009 1:00:14 AM PDT by Luke21

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You did? It is at Auschwitz? So moving ...

11 posted on 08/14/2009 1:35:54 PM PDT by bboop (Tar and feathers -- good back then, good now)

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