St. Maximilian Kolbe Statue 9" High

HAND PAINTED STATUE – 9 Inches High & 3 Inches Wide is made of "Marfilita", which is a mixture of resin and marble dust to strengthen the resin. STORY ABOUT HIM Polish Franciscan friar. He was born on January 8, 1894 in Poland. When the Second World War against the Germans, in a concentration camp in Poland, he entered the camp to give comfort to the prisoners, to the Jews and he became close friends with a Jew who told him that he had his family. One day, this Jew was going to be put in a room with several Jews to starve. Then Maximilian gave his priest’s clothes to the Jew and he put on the prisoner’s clothes so that the Jew could go out as a priest and could have freedom and he stayed in the field and died voluntarily for his brother. He died on August 14, 1941. The church celebrates his day every year on August 14. On October 10, 1982, Pope John Paul II canonized him and declared him martyred for love. The Maximiliano Colbe shrine is in Poland, there is also another shrine in the United States that is located in Illinois. Patron of drug addicts and families, also intercessor of people who use drugs. He had the conviction that with prayer and studying the Bible more was achieved than studying a career since prayer and the Bible is our most important work. PRAYER Oh God, thank you for Maximiliano who, out of love for his neighbor and an example of charity, instilled in him the ardent desire for the salvation of men. Grant us for your intervention to be able to work generously for your glory and for the salvation of men until giving our own lives as did your son, the one who lives and reigns forever and ever, Amen. SHRINES AT THE UNITED STATES National Shrine of Saint Maximilian Kolbe in Libertyville, Illinois.44