the-tumblest-jacob:

tilthat:

TIL of Max Kolbe, a Polish priest and Auschwitz prisoner who volunteered to take another man’s place in a starvation chamber. He lived for 10 days without food or water, and the man whose place he took survived the Holocaust.

via reddit.com

You forgot the best part!!!

That man, Franciszek Gajowniczek was a special guest of Pope St. JP II for Colbe’s canonization.