RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Maximilian Kolbe

1894 - 1941

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Maximilian Maria Kolbe (born Raymund Kolbe; Polish: Maksymilian Maria Kolbe; 8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941) was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, priest, missionary, and martyr. He volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek 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, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, and prisoners. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maximilian Kolbe is the 454th most popular religious figure (down from 310th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Poland (down from 37th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Religious Figure.

Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Maximilian Kolbe ranks 454 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope Anterus, Pope Stephen VII, Theodore of Amasea, Marcion of Sinope, Fatima al-Fihri, and Robert Sarah. After him are Pope Victor I, Saint Sarah, Pope John III, Salome, James the Less, and Sarah Baartman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Maximilian Kolbe ranks 11. Before him are Aldous Huxley, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Georges Lemaître, Boris III of Bulgaria, and Jean Renoir. After him are John Ford, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Joseph Roth, Norbert Wiener, Fritz Sauckel, and Moshe Sharett. Among people deceased in 1941, Maximilian Kolbe ranks 11. Before him are Virginia Woolf, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Walther Nernst, Emanuel Lasker, and Maurice Leblanc. After him are Paul Sabatier, Émile Bernard, Arthur Evans, James George Frazer, Robert Delaunay, and Ioannis Metaxas.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Maximilian Kolbe ranks 61 out of 1,694. Before him are Donald Tusk (1957), Billy Wilder (1906), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Jakob Böhme (1575), Sigismund I the Old (1467), and Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941). After him are Władysław III of Poland (1424), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Irena Sendler (1910), Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), and Gustav Fechner (1801).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Maximilian Kolbe ranks 3. Before him are Pope John Paul II (1920), and Faustina Kowalska (1905). After him are Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Saint Casimir (1458), Angelus Silesius (1624), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Itzhak Stern (1901), and Stanisław Ryłko (1945).

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