Quote from Saint Maximilian Kolbe by Tweeting with God

Maximilian Mary Kolbe was born in Poland. 

He consecrated himself to the Lord in the Franciscan Order. 

Filled with love for the Virgin, he founded the Militia of the Immaculate Mary and, with his preaching and writing, undertook an intense apostolic mission in Europe and Asia. 

Imprisoned in Auschwitz during the Second World War, he offered himself in exchange for the father of a large family who was to be executed. 

He was given a lethal injection when he failed to die fast enough from starvation in the concentration camp. 

Pope St. John Paul II proclaimed him the "Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century."

Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, pray for us.