Maximilian

Maximilian Kolbe

  • Koble is born

    Maximilian Koble was born 1/8/1894 in Poland then under the control of the Russian Empire.
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    Maximilian Kobe's life

    Born in Poland in 1894, he lived his whole life there, he eventually died in 1941 in the Nazi concentration camp named Auschwitz.
  • Becomes a Priest

    In 1918, Maximilian was ordained a priest in Poland,
  • Arrested by the Germans

    The Gestapo arrested Kobe and four others and took them to Pawik Prison, and later was transferred to Auschwitz.
  • His Death

    Koble was being starved after he took the place of another prisoner who was going to be starved, after kobe survived two weeks of starvation he was given a lethal injection and died.
  • Cannonization

    Koble was Canonized in 1982 in Vatican city by pope John Paul II.