miles Christi Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 + ... ora pro nobis! [img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-FcC97m97Y1A/UCj4CaQIT-I/AAAAAAAABqk/aYmkBs7AMGE/s512/St.%2520Maksymilian%2520Maria%2520Kolbe.gif[/img] Ave Maria! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dymphnamaria Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 * St. Maximilian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Where did you get that photo. I have only seen a detail of it, it's great to see the whole thing. [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v446/echo4lima/ofm.png?t=1320039169[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil'Monster Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 You made Max's day! Max, where have you been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 [quote name='Lil'Monster' timestamp='1344921728' post='2467373'] You made Max's day! Max, where have you been? [/quote] I've been here, where have you been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 I love Saint Maximilian Kolbe. His beard is a role model for all men. It's so epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dymphnamaria Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 A statue of St Maximilian in a chapel of the Franciscans: [img]http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s720x720/550188_360246110698731_1325840858_n.jpg[/img] Happy Solemnity to all Franciscans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the171 Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 I believe it is Maksymillian in polish, dymphna. I made that mistake and a good polish grandma corrected me.Or that might have been a Cajun name with my Cajun grandma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dymphnamaria Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 [quote name='the171' timestamp='1344929078' post='2467435'] I believe it is Maksymillian in polish, dymphna. I made that mistake and a good polish grandma corrected me.Or that might have been a Cajun name with my Cajun grandma. [/quote] Yes,he has different spelling on different language. Thank you for that anyway. Happy Solemnity St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antigonos Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 [quote name='FuturePriest387' timestamp='1344928203' post='2467431'] I love Saint Maximilian Kolbe. His beard is a role model for all men. It's so epic. [/quote] Then you would find a community of Orthodox Jews very inspiring! (giggle) Nearly all the men have super beards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 [quote name='Antigonos' timestamp='1344947272' post='2467476'] Then you would find a community of Orthodox Jews very inspiring! (giggle) Nearly all the men have super beards. [/quote] Yeah. Franciscans in general (Saint Maximilian Kolbe was a Franciscan) have amesome beards. Jewish men also typically have amesome beards due to Leviticus, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 [b] [size=4]'I could only thank him with my eyes. I was stunned and could hardly grasp what was going on. The immensity of it: I, the condemned, am to live and someone else willingly and voluntarily offers his life for me - a stranger. Is this some dream? I was put back into my place without having had time to say anything to Maximilian Kolbe. I was saved. And I owe to him the fact that I could tell you all this. The news quickly spread all round the camp. It was the first and the last time that such an incident happened in the whole history of Auschwitz.[/size][/b] [size=4]For a long time I felt remorse when I thought of Maximilian. By allowing myself to be saved, I had signed his death warrant. But now, on reflection, I understood that a man like him could not have done otherwise. Perhaps he thought that as a priest his place was beside the condemned men to help them keep hope. In fact he was with them to the last.'‘ -- Franciszek Gajowniczek, the man who St. Maximilian gave his life for in Auschwitz[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Kind of prophetic. "I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me. Then she came to me holding two crowns, one white, the other red. She asked if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both." - Saint Maximilian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dymphnamaria Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 [img]http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/247708_162972083764901_8278004_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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