Saint Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who is best known for volunteering to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz.

St. Maximillian is the patron saint of families, prisoners, journalists, political prisoners, drug addicts and the pro-life movement. St. John Paul II declared him to be “the patron saint of our difficult century.”

Pray his novena and other prayers. Know his life story.

“Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” – John 15:13