Forwarded from Eques Templarii♱
Forwarded from Eques Templarii♱
Today is the Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe and my love and respect for this great Saint of the Church has grown greatly over the last couple years after initially hearing the story of his martyrdom. He was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar whp volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
According to an eyewitness, who was an assistant janitor at that time, in his prison cell, 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. He died on August 14. His remains were cremated on 15 August, the feast day of the Assumption of Mary.
St. Maximilian Kolbe, Ora Pro Nobis!
According to an eyewitness, who was an assistant janitor at that time, in his prison cell, 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. He died on August 14. His remains were cremated on 15 August, the feast day of the Assumption of Mary.
St. Maximilian Kolbe, Ora Pro Nobis!
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Forwarded from Mocking Cavalier
"Routledge maintains he has been unshaken by the experience thanks to his Catholic faith. He described on Twitch, a livestreaming website, that he imagined being asked to renounce Christ at gunpoint and refusing. He has been out and about with a crucifix around his neck. ‘I was fully prepared for death, I accepted it,’ he said, ‘This trip has been a test of God. I’m very religious so I believe I’ll be looked after. Before I left I wrote a letter to my friends saying that if I died, not to feel guilty, that I would die happy and religious and proud.’"
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/bit-of-a-pickle-meet-the-british-student-stuck-on-holiday-in-kabul/
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/bit-of-a-pickle-meet-the-british-student-stuck-on-holiday-in-kabul/
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‘Bit of a pickle’ – meet the British student stuck on holiday in Kabul - The Spectator World
If a friend told you he booked a holiday to ‘goof off and soak in the sun’, you would be forgiven for thinking he had opted for a week on the Costa del Sol. Miles Routledge seems to be a bit different. He’d seen news reports stating that, while the Taliban…