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St. Maximilian Kolbe’s beard: EWTN friars draw inspiration from unusual relic

August 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

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… […]

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Could Edith Stein be declared the next doctor of the Church?

May 6, 2024 Catholic News Agency 20

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… […]

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Religious leaders mark Auschwitz liberation anniversary

January 28, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

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… […]

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Sainthood cause opened for Polish Catholic known as ‘earthly guardian angel’ of Auschwitz

August 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 2

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… […]

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80 years ago St. Maximilian Kolbe gave his life in Auschwitz to save a father of a family

August 14, 2021 Catholic News Agency 2

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… […]

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The Liberation of Auschwitz: Playing the Blame Game

January 26, 2020 Joseph Pearce 5

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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