Hoje comemora-se o dia de São Maximiliano Kolbe, o homem do Bloco 11, Cela 18, que se ofereceu para morrer de fome no lugar de um pai em Auschwitz, há 71 anos (14 de agosto de 1941).
Este blog nasceu no dia que visitei a cela dele, onde João Paulo II colocou flores.
Que São Maximiliano me ajude na minha caminhada e nas caminhadas dos amigos deste pequeno blog dedicado à economia.
Vejam o relato do Rome Reports, abaixo.
August 14, 2012. (Romereports.com) August 14 is the feast day of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe. His given name was Raymond but upon entering the Franciscan seminary he changed it to Maximilian. He was born in the small Polish village of Zdunska Wola on January 8, 1894.
He
is admired for the heroic gesture of offering his life to save the life
of a parent. It happened on August 3, 1941 at the Auschwitz
concentration camp when a prisoner escaped, ten others were sentenced to
death. Seeing that one of those sentenced to die was a father,
Maximilian volunteered to take his place. His request was granted and
was sentenced to death by starvation. He died on August 14, 1941.
The
father that was saved by Maximilian noted that he “not only died a
saint, but also lived as a saint”. During his last days spent in prison,
Maximilian still found a way to celebrate Mass.
In
1917 he launched the “Militia of the Immaculate,” an association of the
faithful dedicated to his return to Poland. He also helped create
different magazines as well as two religious communities known as
“cities of the Immaculate,” one in Poland and one in Japan.
He was a saint, who as John Paul II once said, “did not suffer in death, but gave the gift of life”.
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