Wednesday 23 September 2026 · Today's Saint
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St Maximilian Kolbe
The martyr of Auschwitz.
Patron of Drug addicts, journalists, prisoners · 1894–1941
Life
A Polish Conventual Franciscan who founded the Militia of the Immaculate, ran the largest Catholic press in pre-war Europe, and offered his life in place of a stranger condemned to the starvation bunker at Auschwitz.
Prayer
St Maximilian, pray that our love may overcome every fear.
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