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A Man for Others: Maximiliam Kolbe Saint of Auschwitz, in the Words of Those Who Knew Him
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October 18, 2020
A truly incredible blend of history, biographical work, and devotional content, this book gives a moving account of St. Kolbe’s life primarily through the eye of those who witnessed his ministry and passion.
It is impossible to read this book without cultivating a deeper sense of poverty, love of neighbour, and trust in Our Blessed Mother.
It is impossible to read this book without cultivating a deeper sense of poverty, love of neighbour, and trust in Our Blessed Mother.
June 2, 2021
This is the third book I have read on Saint Maximilian Kolbe.
They have all been good, but this one in particular was outstanding. If you are only going to read one book on this amazing human being, make sure it is this one. Most of the information co
Ss from those who knew him. Including those at Auschwitz with him.
Excellent, excellent book.
They have all been good, but this one in particular was outstanding. If you are only going to read one book on this amazing human being, make sure it is this one. Most of the information co
Ss from those who knew him. Including those at Auschwitz with him.
Excellent, excellent book.
May 31, 2013
I was half way into this book when I felt the urge to send copies to everyone I know.
"There is no poetry after Auschwitz," people say. Others insist that there can be no God after Auschwitz, and no man either, at least not man as we had wished humanity to be. We live in an ugly world of mindless cruelty blasted into our minds by 24-7 news broadcasters. One atrocity after the other invites us to be cynical, to be selfish, and to think that our only satisfaction can be found in the next good meal or drug fix or other self-indulgent, transient pleasure.
Maximilian Kolbe, Polish Catholic priest and Auschwitz prisoner, was one of the most remarkable people who ever lived. His kindness, trust in God, and active compassion shatter our most cynical, selfish stances.
"A Man for Others" is an amazingly easy and engaging read. For the most part, the book consists of transcripts of oral recollections of Kolbe's life from his most intimate friends, family members, and fellow Auschwitz prisoners. The most profound truths are expressed in simple language. A middle school student could read this book, and then reread it later in life, and gain new understanding of its incredible story.
Maximilian Kolbe was born to a family so poor that they could not afford to send him to school, and under a foreign occupation so oppressive the colonizing powers refused Polish children the ability to study in the Polish language. He developed active tuberculosis and coughed up blood regularly. At times, his body was so weak, he felt himself close to death. In spite of hardships that have stunted many a life, Kolbe founded a religious order that prospered in Poland and in Japan.
While founding these orders, Kolbe, the man in charge, observed absolute poverty. He gave freely of whatever money he accumulated. He slept on bare floors under leaking ceilings. The Polish and Japanese peasants among whom he lived were poor, and he allowed no privileges for himself, in spite of his impossible work load and tubercular lungs. The people who knew him during these years, long before his fame spread throughout the world, observed that he was a saint in the making.
When Nazis invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, they targeted Kolbe, and all other priests, monks, and nuns. Kolbe was arrested on September 19. He and other priests were packed into train cars. When they asked for water, they were called "Polish swine" and told they were "destined for extermination." Prisoners were fed starvation rations and had to sleep on the ground in winter. In December, Kolbe was released. His followers encouraged him to flee Poland. They knew that with his high profile, his freedom was temporary. Given that he had had a taste of what it meant to be a prisoner of the Nazis, it is all the more remarkable that Kolbe decided to do what he did next: defy the Nazis further.
Kolbe made his headquarters, Niepokalanow, a shelter for refugees fleeing Nazi persecution, including an estimated two thousand Jews. Among Kolbe's last published words, and among the most inspirational words ever written, were the following, "No one can alter the truth. What we can do and should do is to search for truth and then serve it when we have found it." These were incendiary words in a Poland occupied by Nazis. Kolbe was arrested again, and sent to Auschwitz.
There is no need to repeat here what Kolbe endured in Auschwitz. The horrors of that manmade hell are all too familiar. What is unforgettable is Kolbe's behavior. This fragile, tubercular priest, by all accounts, went out of his way to be kind to all. Receiving only starvation rations, he gave his food away to others. He counseled fellow prisoners. He showed no hostility to Nazi guards. For all this, he was singled out for beatings and cruel tortures. A man of peace, deprived of all power, he still had the power of truth. Nazis were so intimidated by him they ordered him not to look at them. They could not endure the power of his eyes (228). After the war, Sigmund Gorson, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, testified of Kolbe, "Now it is easy to be nice, to be charitable, to be humble, when times are good and peace prevails. For someone to be as Father Kolbe was in [Auschwitz] … is beyond words."
Kolbe offered to take the place of a man condemned to death. He was stripped and held in a dark, bare-floored, foul-smelling, featureless concrete cell, with ten other men, with no food or water, until they starved to death. In the cell, Kolbe spent his final days praying, singing, and encouraging his fellow prisoners. It took weeks for him to die. Finally, the Nazis injected him with carbolic acid.
The bare facts of Kolbe's story inspire awe. The bare facts are not enough. You need to read this book, to get an intimate sense of Kolbe the human being. "A Man for Others" was one of those rare, special books that gave me the sense that I was acquiring a new friend. Kolbe comes alive in these pages. He is a man we need today.
Sadly, this must be mentioned. After Kolbe was canonized, professional atheist Christopher Hitchens, celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz, superstar scholar Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, and Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen launched a tragically misguided smear campaign against Kolbe. Prof. Daniel Schlafly and Warren Green, director of the St. Louis Center for Holocaust Studies, debunked the smears, and the concerned reader is advised to study their full report.
"There is no poetry after Auschwitz," people say. Others insist that there can be no God after Auschwitz, and no man either, at least not man as we had wished humanity to be. We live in an ugly world of mindless cruelty blasted into our minds by 24-7 news broadcasters. One atrocity after the other invites us to be cynical, to be selfish, and to think that our only satisfaction can be found in the next good meal or drug fix or other self-indulgent, transient pleasure.
Maximilian Kolbe, Polish Catholic priest and Auschwitz prisoner, was one of the most remarkable people who ever lived. His kindness, trust in God, and active compassion shatter our most cynical, selfish stances.
"A Man for Others" is an amazingly easy and engaging read. For the most part, the book consists of transcripts of oral recollections of Kolbe's life from his most intimate friends, family members, and fellow Auschwitz prisoners. The most profound truths are expressed in simple language. A middle school student could read this book, and then reread it later in life, and gain new understanding of its incredible story.
Maximilian Kolbe was born to a family so poor that they could not afford to send him to school, and under a foreign occupation so oppressive the colonizing powers refused Polish children the ability to study in the Polish language. He developed active tuberculosis and coughed up blood regularly. At times, his body was so weak, he felt himself close to death. In spite of hardships that have stunted many a life, Kolbe founded a religious order that prospered in Poland and in Japan.
While founding these orders, Kolbe, the man in charge, observed absolute poverty. He gave freely of whatever money he accumulated. He slept on bare floors under leaking ceilings. The Polish and Japanese peasants among whom he lived were poor, and he allowed no privileges for himself, in spite of his impossible work load and tubercular lungs. The people who knew him during these years, long before his fame spread throughout the world, observed that he was a saint in the making.
When Nazis invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, they targeted Kolbe, and all other priests, monks, and nuns. Kolbe was arrested on September 19. He and other priests were packed into train cars. When they asked for water, they were called "Polish swine" and told they were "destined for extermination." Prisoners were fed starvation rations and had to sleep on the ground in winter. In December, Kolbe was released. His followers encouraged him to flee Poland. They knew that with his high profile, his freedom was temporary. Given that he had had a taste of what it meant to be a prisoner of the Nazis, it is all the more remarkable that Kolbe decided to do what he did next: defy the Nazis further.
Kolbe made his headquarters, Niepokalanow, a shelter for refugees fleeing Nazi persecution, including an estimated two thousand Jews. Among Kolbe's last published words, and among the most inspirational words ever written, were the following, "No one can alter the truth. What we can do and should do is to search for truth and then serve it when we have found it." These were incendiary words in a Poland occupied by Nazis. Kolbe was arrested again, and sent to Auschwitz.
There is no need to repeat here what Kolbe endured in Auschwitz. The horrors of that manmade hell are all too familiar. What is unforgettable is Kolbe's behavior. This fragile, tubercular priest, by all accounts, went out of his way to be kind to all. Receiving only starvation rations, he gave his food away to others. He counseled fellow prisoners. He showed no hostility to Nazi guards. For all this, he was singled out for beatings and cruel tortures. A man of peace, deprived of all power, he still had the power of truth. Nazis were so intimidated by him they ordered him not to look at them. They could not endure the power of his eyes (228). After the war, Sigmund Gorson, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, testified of Kolbe, "Now it is easy to be nice, to be charitable, to be humble, when times are good and peace prevails. For someone to be as Father Kolbe was in [Auschwitz] … is beyond words."
Kolbe offered to take the place of a man condemned to death. He was stripped and held in a dark, bare-floored, foul-smelling, featureless concrete cell, with ten other men, with no food or water, until they starved to death. In the cell, Kolbe spent his final days praying, singing, and encouraging his fellow prisoners. It took weeks for him to die. Finally, the Nazis injected him with carbolic acid.
The bare facts of Kolbe's story inspire awe. The bare facts are not enough. You need to read this book, to get an intimate sense of Kolbe the human being. "A Man for Others" was one of those rare, special books that gave me the sense that I was acquiring a new friend. Kolbe comes alive in these pages. He is a man we need today.
Sadly, this must be mentioned. After Kolbe was canonized, professional atheist Christopher Hitchens, celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz, superstar scholar Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, and Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen launched a tragically misguided smear campaign against Kolbe. Prof. Daniel Schlafly and Warren Green, director of the St. Louis Center for Holocaust Studies, debunked the smears, and the concerned reader is advised to study their full report.
January 2, 2021
Father Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan priest, was canonized by Pope John Paul II, a fellow Pole, as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on October 10, 1982.
For many, including myself, Fr. Maximilian Kolbe is known only as the man who sacrificed his own life by volunteering to replace a prisoner condemned to death by the Nazis at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. However, there was so much more to Fr. Kolbe that was unknown to me, an omission which was rectified by Patricia Treece in A Man for Others: Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, In the Words of Those Who Knew Him.
Born in Zdunska Wola, Poland in 1894, Fr. Kolbe earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1915 at the age of twenty-one and earned a second Ph.D in theology at the Franciscans’ International College in Rome in 1919 at the age of twenty-five. During his studies in Rome, Fr. Kolbe contracted tuberculosis, a disease from which he would suffer serious recurrences during the rest of his life. Subsequently, in 1927, Fr. Kolbe founded a Franciscan friary on donated land at Teresin, outside Warsaw, Poland for the beginning of the City of the Immaculata, known in Polish as Niepokalanow. In 1930, Fr. Kolbe traveled to Nagasaki, Japan as a missionary where he established a friary called Mugenzai no Sono (Garden of the Immaculata), which miraculously survived the atomic bomb blast in August 1945. In 1936, Fr. Kolbe returned to the friary at Niepokalanow as spiritual leader where he ministered until his arrest by the Gestapo in February 1941, turning the friary “into a hospice for displaced Polish Jews, gentiles, and German invaders alike, with a sense of brotherhood that simply did not include the words ‘enemy’ or ‘unlovable’ in its vocabulary.”
Early in his life, Fr. Kolbe came to the realization that he was to “fight for God under [the Blessed Virgin] Mary’s leadership, not in literal but in spiritual combat.” Throughout his life, Fr. Kolbe was devoted to his ideal of “love [for all] without limits.” Even before Fr. Kolbe’s arrest by the Gestapo, those that knew him thought that the Franciscan was “a never-to-be-forgotten person, a credit to the human race because of the way he gave himself freely and completely to others, whatever their class, race, religion or condition.”
A Man for Others, is one of the most inspirational books that I have ever read. Fr. Kolbe’s life provides a road map for anyone wishing to attain eternal salvation.
St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us!
For many, including myself, Fr. Maximilian Kolbe is known only as the man who sacrificed his own life by volunteering to replace a prisoner condemned to death by the Nazis at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. However, there was so much more to Fr. Kolbe that was unknown to me, an omission which was rectified by Patricia Treece in A Man for Others: Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, In the Words of Those Who Knew Him.
Born in Zdunska Wola, Poland in 1894, Fr. Kolbe earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1915 at the age of twenty-one and earned a second Ph.D in theology at the Franciscans’ International College in Rome in 1919 at the age of twenty-five. During his studies in Rome, Fr. Kolbe contracted tuberculosis, a disease from which he would suffer serious recurrences during the rest of his life. Subsequently, in 1927, Fr. Kolbe founded a Franciscan friary on donated land at Teresin, outside Warsaw, Poland for the beginning of the City of the Immaculata, known in Polish as Niepokalanow. In 1930, Fr. Kolbe traveled to Nagasaki, Japan as a missionary where he established a friary called Mugenzai no Sono (Garden of the Immaculata), which miraculously survived the atomic bomb blast in August 1945. In 1936, Fr. Kolbe returned to the friary at Niepokalanow as spiritual leader where he ministered until his arrest by the Gestapo in February 1941, turning the friary “into a hospice for displaced Polish Jews, gentiles, and German invaders alike, with a sense of brotherhood that simply did not include the words ‘enemy’ or ‘unlovable’ in its vocabulary.”
Early in his life, Fr. Kolbe came to the realization that he was to “fight for God under [the Blessed Virgin] Mary’s leadership, not in literal but in spiritual combat.” Throughout his life, Fr. Kolbe was devoted to his ideal of “love [for all] without limits.” Even before Fr. Kolbe’s arrest by the Gestapo, those that knew him thought that the Franciscan was “a never-to-be-forgotten person, a credit to the human race because of the way he gave himself freely and completely to others, whatever their class, race, religion or condition.”
A Man for Others, is one of the most inspirational books that I have ever read. Fr. Kolbe’s life provides a road map for anyone wishing to attain eternal salvation.
St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us!
April 9, 2019
Maximilian Kolbe is an amazing person who had heroic virtue. The story of his life is fascinating, but this is a somewhat heavy book to get through. A lot of great insight into his life and what he was like to be around.
October 1, 2025
A life-changing, soul shaping read. Treece’s writing is at times less than ideal for the subject matter, but the depth of research is a gift to the world. I will recommend this book to everyone! St. Maximillian Kolbe, please pray for me!!!
July 11, 2022
Five beautiful stars.
An absolutely wonderful read that shows you, through the people that knew him, the life of the great St. Maximilian Kolbe.
There will be tears, and there will also be smiles.
I seriously recommend this to anyone who is mildly interested in learning more about the Saint of Auschwitz.
The story starts from his childhood years and moves through adulthood to the end of his life in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
An absolutely wonderful read that shows you, through the people that knew him, the life of the great St. Maximilian Kolbe.
There will be tears, and there will also be smiles.
I seriously recommend this to anyone who is mildly interested in learning more about the Saint of Auschwitz.
The story starts from his childhood years and moves through adulthood to the end of his life in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
November 12, 2019
An excellent biography of a great saint
September 5, 2020
This is one of the best books I’ve ever read. St. Maximilian Kolbe was a one of the priests we need in our current time. He was I afraid of death and suffering, giving his every moment to God. In a year where my archdiocese went three months without offering public Mass it was incredible to read that Kolbe offered secret Masses between the blocks at Auschwitz in the middle of the night-what bravery!
February 5, 2023
I came upon this book amid a 6-day silent retreat. It was around day 3 and I'd been experiencing only spiritual dryness. It was hard just to be in prayer. I felt nothing.
I picked this book up and I admit, I thought it would be another one of those "boring saint books."
Boy was I wrong.
The testimonies of the people he impacted interweave together to create a vivid tapestry of his life.
This book made me realize that, although Kolbe had a much different life than mine, being a saint is actually much simpler than I thought. It all comes down to doing God's will in your life.
Maybe His will for you might not mean being a martyr. But living our daily lives with intentionality, striving to love those around us(even the most annoying ones!), and submitting to His will for us is also a form of martyrdom.
This book also showed me that sainthood takes perseverance. We have to keep going. We have to keep begging God to show us the way because we can't make it on our own strength.
Kolbe was a real breathing man, with his own struggles and shortcomings, who overcame insurmountable odds solely because of his faith in God.
That gives me hope that we too can one day become saints if we keep surrendering ourselves to God.
This little book is a witness to our age of faithlessness. His example of selflessness and sacrifice stands in stark contrast to the selfish ways of the world.
St Maximilian Kolbe pray for us!
I picked this book up and I admit, I thought it would be another one of those "boring saint books."
Boy was I wrong.
The testimonies of the people he impacted interweave together to create a vivid tapestry of his life.
This book made me realize that, although Kolbe had a much different life than mine, being a saint is actually much simpler than I thought. It all comes down to doing God's will in your life.
Maybe His will for you might not mean being a martyr. But living our daily lives with intentionality, striving to love those around us(even the most annoying ones!), and submitting to His will for us is also a form of martyrdom.
This book also showed me that sainthood takes perseverance. We have to keep going. We have to keep begging God to show us the way because we can't make it on our own strength.
Kolbe was a real breathing man, with his own struggles and shortcomings, who overcame insurmountable odds solely because of his faith in God.
That gives me hope that we too can one day become saints if we keep surrendering ourselves to God.
This little book is a witness to our age of faithlessness. His example of selflessness and sacrifice stands in stark contrast to the selfish ways of the world.
St Maximilian Kolbe pray for us!
January 24, 2016
This was the first book I've read on St. Maximilian Kolbe. His life was amazing and it has really given me a new perspective on what it means to "love your neighbor". Hearing about the horrendous conditions in Auschwitz and how human beings had to fight against their "animal inclinations" to survive makes me appreciate all the more his calm peaceful demeanor in the midst of that living hell. Back to the love of neighbor…. he gave away his rations, his comfort, his life. What an inspiration….. what can I do to apply that love of neighbor concept in my own life???
I can't say that I always loved the personal testimony format of this book. I would've loved more history and more specific details about St. Max. Kolbe, but any book that inspires me to live a better life is worthy of 4 stars!!
I can't say that I always loved the personal testimony format of this book. I would've loved more history and more specific details about St. Max. Kolbe, but any book that inspires me to live a better life is worthy of 4 stars!!
September 9, 2022
I have read a number of works by and about St. Kolbe and this one was exceptional. Treece carefully researched and prepared this book in a most excellent way. More of a documentary than a biography, according to Treece, I found myself moved to tears a number of times reading about those who went to confession to him while in Auschwitz. To see such light in a time of darkness is a powerful witness indeed. Highly recommend.
October 30, 2012
The best biography out there for Maximilian Kolbe fans! Lots of eye witness first hand accounts blended seamlessly together really allowing you to get to in my favorite saint. Also a great book for those looking to gain insight to the environment inside Auschwitz concentration camp.
September 10, 2016
unique biography - heavily uses quotes from the men and women who know Kolbe during his life. highly recommend reading - this Saint has many things to teach us about love and sacrifice. Saint Maximilian pray for us.
March 10, 2019
Moving story of an amazing man who loved everyone, good and evil. While best known and revered for taking the place of another condemned man at Auschwitz (that man survived), many other miracles happened during his lifetime, all because he loved.
May 6, 2025
I knew a lot about St Maximillian Kolbe before I went on a Poland pilgrimage. I visited his Church and learned much more about him. I even visited Auschwitz where Fr Kolbe was sent and died. I did buy this book in the gift shop there, but you can buy it here in the US. This book was totally enlightening. I thought I knew him, but I learned about him as a child, his religious life and what an extraordinary person he really was. He started several Franciscan Churches etc but more than that I learned about him as a person. He was a living saint before he gave up his life according to many people who knew him in various ways. He totally inspired me to do more with love in my heart. I absolutely loved this book and will probably reread it again at some time. I rarely ever do that. Great read. You will learn of this great man and be inspired also. I promise.
June 17, 2024
Before reading, I could give you the briefest description of St. Maximilian Kolbe’s life. But this book, absolutely blew my mind. Other reviewers have said, if you only read one book on Koble let this be the one, I couldn’t agree more.
From a writing standpoint, I really enjoyed hearing from dozens and dozens of people who knew Kolbe personally. Their accounts were incredible.
Kolbe was a living saint and a saint for our modern age. In a world infested by selfishness, Kolbe’s life is a light, showing the world (me!) how to suffer well, to truly love, and place our lives in the hands of Jesus and our Blessed Mother. His life from start to end (one I know more about thanks to this book!) was and is a gift to the world.
From a writing standpoint, I really enjoyed hearing from dozens and dozens of people who knew Kolbe personally. Their accounts were incredible.
Kolbe was a living saint and a saint for our modern age. In a world infested by selfishness, Kolbe’s life is a light, showing the world (me!) how to suffer well, to truly love, and place our lives in the hands of Jesus and our Blessed Mother. His life from start to end (one I know more about thanks to this book!) was and is a gift to the world.
January 16, 2024
While this is just the start of my journey of learning about the saints, this man may be the kindest and most holy (non biblical) person I have ever heard of, and I find it hard to believe he will be topped.
The world would be much better if humanity (myself included) lived with just 1/10th of the selflessness and love for God, Mary and neighbor as Kolbe did.
"I don't fear death; I fear sin."
"No one can alter truth. What we can do and should do is to search for truth and then serve it when we have found it."
The world would be much better if humanity (myself included) lived with just 1/10th of the selflessness and love for God, Mary and neighbor as Kolbe did.
"I don't fear death; I fear sin."
"No one can alter truth. What we can do and should do is to search for truth and then serve it when we have found it."
March 21, 2025
I loved it!!! There was just some weird references in there that tried to reach non-Christians, but those were surrounded by other Catholic ideas that were not explained at all. So, I just think it would’ve been better without any attempts to pander.
This man’s life, though! so much I didn’t know about him: he had tuberculosis, was a publisher of the most read magazine in Poland, had two doctorates by 25? Wow. I had only even learned about his Japan mission in one of the recent books I’ve read. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us.
This man’s life, though! so much I didn’t know about him: he had tuberculosis, was a publisher of the most read magazine in Poland, had two doctorates by 25? Wow. I had only even learned about his Japan mission in one of the recent books I’ve read. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us.
September 22, 2025
I picked up this book, described as one of the best biographies of St Maximilian Kolbe, as I wanted to learn more about Kolbe's life after my son chose him as his confirmation saint. The book does a good job of providing historical information and personal accounts of those who knew Kolbe and experienced hardship alongside him. It covers Kolbe's time as a child, seminary formation, ministry in Japan, and of course his time at Auschwitz. Overall, a really good text for those wanting more than a cursory understanding of the man who loved the Blessed Mother, the Apostle of Auschwitz.
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March 28, 2022I first learned about Maximilian Kolbe from the historical novel, The Last Checkmate, by Gabriella Saab.
Though the writing of this biography isn’t compelling, Maximilian Kolbe’s story is. The strength of this book is the first hand accounts of the people who knew or encountered Kolbe. (I could have done without a lot of the author’s commentary.)
If I read this again, I think I’ll read the intro and prologue, skip the first 6 chapters, and read chapter 7 (“War”) to the end.
Though the writing of this biography isn’t compelling, Maximilian Kolbe’s story is. The strength of this book is the first hand accounts of the people who knew or encountered Kolbe. (I could have done without a lot of the author’s commentary.)
If I read this again, I think I’ll read the intro and prologue, skip the first 6 chapters, and read chapter 7 (“War”) to the end.
March 11, 2021
Kolbe has always interested me, however reading this it feels like there is much about him that was brushed over in favor of some other end. That is to say, give 20 pages you can not do justice to his marvelous life. This book covers his life well and when read properly shows the aspects of Love we ought to strive for
September 1, 2024
Um excelente trabalho no sentido de transmitir os testemunhos de quem conheceu, e principais doutrinas deste grande santo do século XX, Cavaleiro da Imaculada.
O que não concordo são muitas das observações da autora e sua visão um tanto envenenada de modernismo.Com juízo crítico, e sem prestar muita atenção às opiniões da autora, parece-me um livro que merece ser lido.
O que não concordo são muitas das observações da autora e sua visão um tanto envenenada de modernismo.Com juízo crítico, e sem prestar muita atenção às opiniões da autora, parece-me um livro que merece ser lido.
August 9, 2025
A beautiful “documentary” on Kolbe! Now, my friend and intercessor. The most thorough piece I’ve read on St. Kolbe, filled with first-hand accounts, from his early days through his death. I had always heard the story of him giving his life for another prisoner, but that is a tiny piece of him. Well worth reading. High school level and up.
November 12, 2021
This just didn't connect. Sure Kolbe's story is inspiring and hard, but there just nothing to bridge the gap for me. Call me a bad Catholic or whatever, but even tho we are both Polish, this just didn't move me in a large way.
August 1, 2023
incrível.
gosto como esse era um dos santos que me pareciam velhos rígidos, mas na verdade, é uma criança pura e de coração grande, que, vivendo plenamente a sua vocação, encaminhou para Deus muitas almas.
gosto como esse era um dos santos que me pareciam velhos rígidos, mas na verdade, é uma criança pura e de coração grande, que, vivendo plenamente a sua vocação, encaminhou para Deus muitas almas.
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August 3, 2025This is one of the most down-to-earth books on a saint that I have ever read. It really puts the Divine into a human perspective and is close to being a how-to book on holiness. Easily one of the coolest books I have ever read.
September 23, 2020
Great biography which gives a fascinating history of St. Maximilian Kolbe. I just knew his sacrifice at the end of his life but had no idea the impact he had before he went to Auschwitz.
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March 23, 2021really good book
May 5, 2021
Outstanding biography of one of the greatest saints of the 20th century
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