St. Maximilian Kolbe. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons/public domain
CNA Staff, Aug 14, 2024 / 16:06 pm (CNA).
Aug. 14 is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a saint best known for his heroic martyrdom at Auschwitz in 1941, when he volunteered to… […]
Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), pictured in 1938-1939. / Credit: Public Domain
Rome Newsroom, May 6, 2024 / 11:12 am (CNA).
Edith Stein could be declared a doctor of the Church with the title “doctor veritatis,” or “doctor of truth… […]
Religious leaders mark the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau at the death camp, Jan. 27, 2022. / Wojciech Grabowski/www.auschwitz.org.
Oświęcim, Poland, Jan 28, 2022 / 03:37 am (CNA).
Religious leaders gathered at Auschwi… […]
Stefania Łącka, pictured in 1945. / Public domain.
Tarnow, Poland, Aug 31, 2021 / 03:30 am (CNA).
The sainthood cause of a Polish Catholic who dedicated herself to helping fellow prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp has opened.Bishop Andrze… […]
St. Maximilian Kolbe / Public Domain
Rome Newsroom, Aug 14, 2021 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Eighty years ago St. Maximilian Kolbe died in Auschwitz on August 14 after volunteering to take the place of a father in the concentration camp’s starvation bunke… […]
On January 27, 1945, advancing Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz concentration camp. Today, 75 years after the event, wars are still being fought over who was responsible for World War Two and the many atrocities which […]
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