The day Catholics celebrate the life and death of a super based and saintly warrior who spat in the face of fascism, communism, wokeness and evil.
Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish priest and Franciscan friar. He was also the leader of a monastery that he converted into a temporary hospital at the breakout of World War II.
When German authorities forced him to shut down the monastery he was given the option to sign a paper that would confirm his allegiance to the state, saving him from imprisonment...
He refused.
Kolbe and four others were arrested by the Gestapo and taken to Auschwitz as prisoners.
Continuing to act as a priest, Kolbe was subjected to violent harassment, including beatings and lashings.
In July 1941, a prisoner escaped from the camp prompting the deputy camp commander to pick ten men to be starved to death in an underground bunker to deter further escape attempts.
When one of the selected men cried out, "My wife! My children!" Kolbe volunteered to take his place.
Down in the dim, dirty underground dungeon Kolbe led the prisoners in prayer.
Each time the guards checked on him, he was standing or kneeling in the middle of the cell and looking calmly at those who entered.
After they had been starved and deprived of water for two weeks, only Kolbe remained alive.
The guards wanted the bunker emptied, so they gave Kolbe a lethal injection of carbolic acid. Kolbe is said to have raised his left arm and calmly waited for the deadly injection.