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Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'

The Polish priest who was declared a saint for swapping his life for a stranger's at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941.

In October 1982, the Polish priest, Father Maximilian Kolbe, was canonised for sacrificing his own life to save another prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two. Simon Watts uses the ±«Óătv archives to tell the story of the man the Vatican considers the “Patron Saint of the 20th Century”.

(Photo: Maximilian Kolbe at his monastery in Poland in 1927. Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)

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Wed 24 Oct 2018 07:50GMT
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