The Feast of St. Maximillian Kolbe - August 14. St. Maximilian, pray for us He was born on 8 January 1894 in occupied Poland: he joined the Franciscans in Lwów in 1910 and was ordained eight years later, as his country became free and independent for the first time in over 120 years. He believed that the world was passing through a time of intense spiritual crisis and that Christians must fight for the world’s salvation with all the means of modern communication. He founded a newspaper, and a so