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St. Maximilian Kolbe — The Saint at Auschwitz Who Traded Places With a Stranger
He built the largest Catholic publishing operation in the world — then volunteered to die in a stranger's place at Auschwitz.
St. Maximilian Kolbe's story includes a childhood vision of two crowns, a media empire built out of a Polish monastery, and a decision in a starvation bunker that took the Church eleven years to properly name. This episode's Truth or Legend checks three claims most retellings skip past.
Everyday Saints tells the true stories of Catholic saints, separating verified church history from centuries of pious legend — one ordinary saint at a time.
St. Maximilian Kolbe is the…
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