Museum of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Niepokalanow, Poland #2
Video I took while going through the Museum of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Niepokalanow, Poland
Museum of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Niepokalanow, Poland #1
Video I took while going through the Museum of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Niepokalanow, Poland
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Niepokalanów (Poland) - Basilica and Franciscan monastery-sanctuary
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Niepokalanów monastery (so called City of the Immaculate Mother of God) is a Roman Catholic religious community in Teresin (42 km to the west from Warsaw), Poland founded in 1927 by Friar Minor Conventual Friar Maximilian Kolbe, who was later canonized as a saint-martyr of the Catholic Church. After the war the printing house in Niepokalanów was reopened and The Knight of the Immaculate was issued again. In 1948-1954 there was built a new church, since April 1980 called basilica minor. In June 1950, according to the decree of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, a new parish in Niepokalanów was established (6500 faithful circa). The church and the monastery were visited by Pope John Paul II during his second Pastoral Visit in Poland, on 18 of June 1983. The visit of the Pope made Niepokalanów famous not only in Poland, but also abroad. The Pope called the monastery a heroic place where saint Maximilian lived and the environment of the Immaculate. Many pilgrims want to visit the place, sacred by activity of St Maximilian, and pray in the local basilica. They also can see the Museum of St Maximilian (called There was a Man), established in 1998, and a wooden old chapel, one of the first buildings here, constructed in 1927 for the friars and rebuilt two years later so the local faithful could attend the celebrations and services. The monastery became also a place where many religious meeting are held...
Adoration Chapel in Niepokalanow
Payments can be made to the following account:
Parafia rzymskokatolicka
pw. Niepokalanego Poczęcia NMP w Niepokalanowie
ul. O. M. Kolbego 5
96 – 515 Teresin
IBAN: PL97928400050009834220000040
BIC/SWIFT GBWCPLPPXX|
Transfer title/details: Adoration Chapel, name, surname, address.
Any gold and silver which will be used for refining to create the altar-monstrance can be sent with intentions to:
Parafia pw. Niepokalanego Poczęcia NMP w Niepokalanowie
Paprotnia, ul. O. M. Kolbego 5
96 – 515 Teresin
With adnotation: Adoration Chapel
NIEPOKALANOW - THE SHRINE OF OUR MARY IMMACULATE
Pilgrimage to Poland -
Journey into the Mercy of God May 11 - 22, 2014
Sponsored by the John Paul II Centre for Divine Mercy
Pilgrimage leaders - Stan and Maria Bielec
with Fr. Lawrence Hyginus, Fr. Simon Lobo,
and Deacon Bryan Sabourin, Companions of the Cross
First stop
NIEPOKALANOW - THE SHRINE OF OUR MARY IMMACULATE AND ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE.
St. Maximilian Kolbe HD
St. Maximilian Kolbe was born as Raymund Kolbe on January 8, 1894, in the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. He was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and a martyr in the German death Camp of Auschwitz during World War II.
St. Maximilian Kolbe was very active in promoting the Immaculate Virgin Mary and is known as the Apostle of Consecration to Mary. Much of his life was strongly influenced by a vision he had of the Virgin Mary when he was 12.
That night I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me. Then she came to me holding two crowns, one white, the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both.
One year after his vision, Kolbe and his elder brother, Francis joined the Conventual Franciscans. In 1910, Kolbe was given the religious name Maximilian, after being allowed to enter the novitiate, and in 1911, he professed his first vows.
At the age of 21, Kolbe earned a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He would also earn a doctorate in theology by the time he was 28.
St. Maximilian Kolbe organized the Militia Immaculata (Army of the Immaculate One) after witnessing demonstrations against Pope St. Pius X and Benedict XV. His goal was to work for the conversion of sinners and enemies of the Church, specifically, the Freemasons and he would so with the intercession of Mary.
In 1918, he was ordained a priest and continued his work of promoting Mary throughout Poland. Over the next several years, Kolbe took on publishing. He founded a monthly periodical titled, Rycerz Niepokalanej (Knight of the Immaculate). He also operated a religious publishing press and founded a new Conventual Franciscan monastery at Niepokalanow, which became a major religious publishing center.
Kolbe also founded monasteries in both Japan and India. To this day, the monastery in Japan remains prominent in the Roman Catholic Church in Japan.
In 1936, Kolbe's poor health forced him to return home to Poland, and once the WWII invasion by Germany began, he became one of the only brothers to remain in the monastery. He opened up a temporary hospital to aid those in need. When his town was captured, Kolbe was sent to prison but released three months later.
Kolbe refused to sign a document that would recognize him as a German citizen with his German ancestry and continued to work in his monastery, providing shelter for refugees - including hiding 2,000 Jews from German persecution. After receiving permission to continue his religious publishing, Kolbe's monastery acted as a publishing house again and issued many anti-Nazi German publications.
On February 17, 1941, the monastery was shut down; Kolbe was arrested by the German Gestapo and taken to the Pawiak prison. Three months later, he was transferred to Auschwitz.
Never abandoning his priesthood, Kolbe was the victim to severe violence and harassment. Toward the end of his second month in Auschwitz, men were chosen to face death by starvation to warn against escapes. Kolbe was not chosen but volunteered to take the place of a man with a family.
It is said during the last days of his life Kolbe led prayers to Our Lady with the prisoners and remained calm. He was the last of the group to remain alive, after two weeks of dehydration and starvation. The guards gave him a lethal injection of carbolic acid. The stories tell that he raised his left arm and calmly awaited death.
St. Maximilian Kolbe died on August 14 and his remains were cremated on August 15, the same day as the Assumption of Mary feast day.
Recognized as the Servant of God, Kolbe was beatified as a Confessor of the Faith on October 17, 1971 by Pope Paul VI and canonized by Pope John Paul II on October 10, 1982. Pope John Paul II declared Kolbe not a confessor, but a martyr.
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Das Leben des Märtyrers P. Maximilian Kolbe, Franziskaner-Minorit, in einigen Stationen als Film - eine Produktion der FraJuWa 2011 im Kloster Schwarzenberg.
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Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe
Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe’s Story
“I don’t know what’s going to become of you!” How many parents have said that? Maximilian Mary Kolbe’s reaction was, “I prayed very hard to Our Lady to tell me what would happen to me. She appeared, holding in her hands two crowns, one white, one red. She asked if I would like to have them—one was for purity, the other for martyrdom. I said, ‘I choose both.’ She smiled and disappeared.” After that he was not the same.
He entered the minor seminary of the Conventual Franciscans in Lvív–then Poland, now Ukraine– near his birthplace, and at 16 became a novice. Though Maximilian later achieved doctorates in philosophy and theology, he was deeply interested in science, even drawing plans for rocket ships.
Ordained at 24, Maximilian saw religious indifference as the deadliest poison of the day. His mission was to combat it. He had already founded the Militia of the Immaculata, whose aim was to fight evil with the witness of the good life, prayer, work, and suffering. He dreamed of and then founded Knight of the Immaculata, a religious magazine under Mary’s protection to preach the Good News to all nations. For the work of publication he established a “City of the Immaculata”—Niepokalanow—which housed 700 of his Franciscan brothers. He later founded another one in Nagasaki, Japan. Both the Militia and the magazine ultimately reached the one-million mark in members and subscribers. His love of God was daily filtered through devotion to Mary.
In 1939, the Nazi panzers overran Poland with deadly speed. Niepokalanow was severely bombed. Kolbe and his friars were arrested, then released in less than three months, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
In 1941, Fr. Kolbe was arrested again. The Nazis’ purpose was to liquidate the select ones, the leaders. The end came quickly, three months later in Auschwitz, after terrible beatings and humiliations.
A prisoner had escaped. The commandant announced that 10 men would die. He relished walking along the ranks. “This one. That one.”
As they were being marched away to the starvation bunkers, Number 16670 dared to step from the line.
“I would like to take that man’s place. He has a wife and children.”
“Who are you?”
“A priest.”
No name, no mention of fame. Silence. The commandant, dumbfounded, perhaps with a fleeting thought of history, kicked Sergeant Francis Gajowniczek out of line and ordered Fr. Kolbe to go with the nine. In the “block of death” they were ordered to strip naked, and their slow starvation began in darkness. But there was no screaming—the prisoners sang. By the eve of the Assumption, four were left alive. The jailer came to finish Kolbe off as he sat in a corner praying. He lifted his fleshless arm to receive the bite of the hypodermic needle. It was filled with carbolic acid. They burned his body with all the others. Fr. Kolbe was beatified in 1971 and canonized in 1982.
Reflection
Father Kolbe’s death was not a sudden, last-minute act of heroism. His whole life had been a preparation. His holiness was a limitless, passionate desire to convert the whole world to God. And his beloved Immaculata was his inspiration.
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Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Maximilian Kolbe OFM Conv. (Polish: Maksymilian Maria Kolbe [maksɨˌmʲilʲan ˌmarʲja ˈkɔlbɛ]; 8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941) was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur-radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications.
On 10 October 1982 Pope John Paul II canonized Kolbe and declared him a martyr of charity. The Catholic Church venerates him as the patron saint of amateur-radio operators, of drug addicts, of political prisoners, of families, of journalists, of prisoners, and of the pro-life movement.[2] John Paul II declared him The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century.[3] His feast day is 14 August, the day of his death.
Due to Kolbe's efforts to promote consecration and entrustment to Mary, he is known as the Apostle of Consecration to Mary
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Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe persued significance, not the success the world offers. That's why his life was truly incredible... a life built for others. How are you living?
St. Maximilian Kolbe was born as Raymund Kolbe on January 8, 1894, in the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. He was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and a martyr in the German death Camp of Auschwitz during World War II.
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St. Maximilian Kolbe was very active in promoting the Immaculate Virgin Mary and is known as the Apostle of Consecration to Mary. Much of his life was strongly influenced by a vision he had of the Virgin Mary when he was 12.
That night I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me. Then she came to me holding two crowns, one white, the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both.
One year after his vision, Kolbe and his elder brother, Francis joined the Conventual Franciscans. In 1910, Kolbe was given the religious name Maximilian, after being allowed to enter the novitiate, and in 1911, he professed his first vows.
At the age of 21, Kolbe earned a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He would also earn a doctorate in theology by the time he was 28.
St. Maximilian Kolbe organized the Militia Immaculata (Army of the Immaculate One) after witnessing demonstrations against Pope St. Pius X and Benedict XV. His goal was to work for the conversion of sinners and enemies of the Church, specifically, the Freemasons and he would so with the intercession of Mary.
In 1918, he was ordained a priest and continued his work of promoting Mary throughout Poland. Over the next several years, Kolbe took on publishing. He founded a monthly periodical titled, Rycerz Niepokalanej (Knight of the Immaculate). He also operated a religious publishing press and founded a new Conventual Franciscan monastery at Niepokalanow, which became a major religious publishing center.
Kolbe also founded monasteries in both Japan and India. To this day, the monastery in Japan remains prominent in the Roman Catholic Church in Japan.
In 1936, Kolbe's poor health forced him to return home to Poland, and once the WWII invasion by Germany began, he became one of the only brothers to remain in the monastery. He opened up a temporary hospital to aid those in need. When his town was captured, Kolbe was sent to prison but released three months later.
Kolbe refused to sign a document that would recognize him as a German citizen with his German ancestry and continued to work in his monastery, providing shelter for refugees - including hiding 2,000 Jews from German persecution. After receiving permission to continue his religious publishing, Kolbe's monastery acted as a publishing house again and issued many anti-Nazi German publications.
On February 17, 1941, the monastery was shut down; Kolbe was arrested by the German Gestapo and taken to the Pawiak prison. Three months later, he was transferred to Auschwitz.
Never abandoning his priesthood, Kolbe was the victim to severe violence and harassment. Toward the end of his second month in Auschwitz, men were chosen to face death by starvation to warn against escapes. Kolbe was not chosen but volunteered to take the place of a man with a family.
It is said during the last days of his life Kolbe led prayers to Our Lady with the prisoners and remained calm. He was the last of the group to remain alive, after two weeks of dehydration and starvation. The guards gave him a lethal injection of carbolic acid. The stories tell that he raised his left arm and calmly awaited death.
St. Maximilian Kolbe died on August 14 and his remains were cremated on August 15, the same day as the Assumption of Mary feast day.
Recognized as the Servant of God, Kolbe was beatified as a Confessor of the Faith on October 17, 1971 by Pope Paul VI and canonized by Pope John Paul II on October 10, 1982. Pope John Paul II declared Kolbe not a confessor, but a martyr.
Kolbe's is often depicted in a prison uniform and with a needle being injected into an arm. He is the patron saint of drug addicts, prisoners, families, and the pro-life movement and his feast day is celebrated on August 14.
Saint Maximilian Kolbe (Part 1)
Pilgrimage to Poland - Trailer
This trailer presents the first 10 minutes of the CRTN - documentary Pilgrimage to Poland.
Production Date: 2005
Duration: 28
Copyright : CRTN
Language: English, German, French
Executive Producer: Mark Riedemann
Director: Agnieszka Dzieduszycka
The 28 minute documentary program Pilgrimage to Poland captures the visual elements of this Polish pilgrimage in September 2004 of benefactors from the international Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need. The documentary follows the benefactors from over 17 countries, from the opening Mass at the shrine of Czestochowa, to the cell of Maximilian Kolbe in Auschwitz, to the birthplace of Pope John Paul II, to the famous Church of Nowa Huta and finally, to the shrine of Saint Faustyna. In documenting the pilgrimage, the program also reveals the gratitude that many of the Catholic Church hierarchy express towards Fr. Werenfried and the historical and present day work of Aid to the Church in Need. Special thanks are noted from such personalities as Abp. Stanislaw Nowak, Archbishop of Czestochowa, Father Jzef Gorzelany, the Parish priest during communism of the Nowa Huta Church and Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, Archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
Marytown Slideshow
Marytown, and the National Shrine of St. Maximillian Kolbe OFM Conv., is a ministry of the Conventual Franciscans in Libertyville, IL. It is a retreat center and evangelization center continuing the Militia Immaculata Evangelization Ministry started in 1917 by St. Kolbe who was martyred in Auschwitz during WWII. This video gives a brief overview of the ministry.
Pilgrimage to Poland with Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC
Relive the 2019 Catholic Pilgrimage to Poland with Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC & 206 Tours. Watch as Pilgrims visit the Land of Saints, walking in the footsteps of St. John Paul II, St. Faustina, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko. This 9-day tour made stops in; Warsaw, Niepokalanow, Swinice Warckie, Czestochowa, Wadowice, Zakopane, Krakow, Lagiewniki, and Wieliczka.
To join a Pilgrimage to Poland, visit: 206tours.com/tour168
Renewal of Baptismal Vows at the Jordan River
Fr. Ed Broom, an assoc. pastor at St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church and an Oblate of the Virgin Mary is renewing our baptismal vows at the Jordan River in the Holy Land.
Song from a play - Father Maximilian's Cell - recorded at St. Hedwig Church, Dunkirk, NY
Song about St. Maximilian Kolbe. Lyrics by Kazimierz Braun and music by Michael Zachowicz. Vocalist: Danielle Rae McKay. Maximilian Kolbe: John Jacoby. This song is from a play, Father Maximilian's Cell - a biographical play on St. Maximilian Kolbe by Kazimierz Braun. The play is about a Catholic priest -- one of many persons who were murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis. Father Maximilian Kolbe offered his life (a martyr's death) for another fellow prisoner (who was married and had a family) who was selected by a Nazi officer to die of starvation. For this reason and also because of the moral character and holy life of this priest, Father Kolbe was canonized a saint. The family man who's life Father Kolbe saved was present at St. Maximilian's canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square. The evil that was manifested in the Third Reich of Nazi Germany is covered in this biographical play about the martyred priest. This performance was held at St. Hedwig Church (Blessed Mary Angela Parish) in Dunkirk, NY. We are fortunate that a parishioner, Dr. Jim Strychalski, a member of the parish, recorded the play on his camcorder. Editing & computer adaptation by Bill Parks, stanwrite@aol.com.
And Then He Smiled - The Story Of Saint Maximilian Kolbe
The story of Maximilian Kolbe, who used the talents of his 761 Franciscan confrères in a massive departmentalised organisation combining editorial, typography, linography, printing, building, and domestic departments and a radio station all in the service of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He sealed his witness for Her at Auschwitz by offering himself as a replacement for a condemned man.
Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFM Conv. (Polish: Maksymilian Maria Kolbe [maksɨˌmʲilʲjan ˌmarʲja ˈkɔlbɛ]; 8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941) was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He was active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications.
Kolbe was canonized on 10 October 1982 by Pope John Paul II, and declared a Martyr of charity. He is the patron saint of amateur radio operators, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, and the pro-life movement.[2] John Paul II declared him The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century.
Due to Kolbe's efforts to promote consecration and entrustment to Mary, he is known as the Apostle of Consecration to Mary.
Kolbe's influence has found fertile ground in his own Order of Conventual Franciscan friars, in the form of continued existence of the Militia Immaculatae movement.[30] In recent years new religious and secular institutes have been founded, inspired from this spiritual way. Among these the Missionaries of the Immaculate Mary – Father Kolbe, the Franciscan Friars of Mary Immaculate, and a parallel congregation of Religious Sisters, and others. The Franciscan Friars of Mary Immaculate are even taught basic Polish so they can sing the traditional hymns sung by Kolbe, in the saint's native tongue.[31] According to the friars,
Our patron, St. Maximilian Kolbe, inspires us with his unique Mariology and apostolic mission, which is to bring all souls to the Sacred Heart of Christ through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Christ's most pure, efficient, and holy instrument of evangelization – especially those most estranged from the Church.
Kolbe's views into Marian theology echo today through their influence on Vatican II.[2] His image may be found in churches across Europe.[21] Several churches in Poland are under his patronage, such as the Sanctuary of Saint Maxymilian in Zduńska Wola or the Church of Saint Maxymilian Kolbe in Szczecin.[32][33] A museum, Museum of St. Maximilian Kolbe There was a Man, was opened in Niepokalanów in 1998.
In 1963 Rolf Hochhuth published a play significantly influenced by Kolbe's life and dedicated to him, The Deputy.[16] In 2000, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (U.S.) designated Marytown, home to a community of Conventual Franciscan friars, as the National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe. Marytown is located in Libertyville, Illinois, and also features the Kolbe Holocaust Exhibit.[35] In 1991, Krzysztof Zanussi released a Polish film about the life of Kolbe. The Polish Senate declared the year 2011 to be the year of Maximilian Kolbe.