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

conservative-fashionista:

“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.”

— Saint Maximilian Kolbe (via eccematertua)