The story of St. Maximilian Kolbe

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St. Maximilian Kolbe

Greatness isn't just success at the things you accomplish and what you do, but it's success at who you are. One person who was truly a man of greatness and succeeded in making his life a gift for others was a priest named Father Maximilian Kolbe. He was a priest in Poland when the Nazis took over...

There is also a great part on St. Maximilian Kolbe in this podcast.  He was a real man of God.

http://www.audiosancto.org/sermon/20130622-The-Virtue-of-Manliness.html

and this one:

http://www.audiosancto.org/sermon/20051106-Uniting-Yourself-to-the-Will-of-God-Saint-Maximilian-Kolbe-part-2.html

So it was that Father Maximilian Kolbe was executed on 14 August, 1941 at the age of forty-seven years, a martyr of charity. The death certificate, as always made out with German precision, indicated the hour of death 12.30.

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Powerful stuff, this would make a powerful movie.