St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Biographies include Maria Winowska, The Death Camp Proved Him Real (1971); Patricia Treece, A Man for Others (1982), interviews and recollections; and Diana Dewar, Saint of Auschwitz (1982).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Top questions added. Aug 05, 2026
Add new Web site: University of Notre Dame - FaithND - St. Maximilian Kolbe. May 07, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 04, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 10, 2025
Add new Web site: Westminster Abbey - St Maximilian Kolbe. Apr 05, 2025
Add new Web site: Benedictine College - Media and Culture - The Call, the Cross, the Crown: St. Maximilian Kolbe�s Way of the Fiat. Jan 09, 2025
Add new Web site: Polish History - Maximilian Maria Kolbe � organizer, monk, and saint. May 25, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 19, 2024
Add new Web site: National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe - About St. Maximilian MAria Kolbe. Mar 01, 2024
Add new Web site: Franciscan Media - Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe. Oct 06, 2023
Add new Web site: Eternal Word Television Network - St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe. Jul 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Saint Maximilian Kolbe Church - Biography of Saint Maximilian Kolbe. Jun 15, 2023
Add new Web site: Catholic Online - St. Maximilian Kolbe. Apr 21, 2023
Add new Web site: The Franciscans of the Immaculate - Biography of St. Maximilian Kolbe. Feb 10, 2023
Added a photograph of St. Kolbe. Mar 15, 2018
Added information on his childhood vision of the Virgin Mary and his actions in German-occupied Poland. Mar 15, 2018
Article revised. Jun 13, 2016
Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Maximilian Kolbe. Jul 30, 2010
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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