A comic about the life of St Maximilian Kolbe, martyr of Auschwitz, now available in Spanish

The German death camp of Auschwitz was a place of horror that witnessed an act of heroism in the summer of 1941.

St Maximilian Kolbe: the Auschwitz martyr who gave his life to save another prisoner
Polish Catholics: the great forgotten when talking about the victims of the Holocaust

Three prisoners had escaped, and in retaliation, the Germans chose ten prisoners to be murdered. One of them was Franciszek Gajowniczek, prisoner number 5659, a Polish Army sergeant who was married and the father of two children. Upon hearing that he was among those chosen, he began to lament for his family. A Polish Catholic priest who was a prisoner at Auschwitz, Maximilian Kolbe, heard his lamentations and offered to take his place. He was murdered with an injection of carbolic acid on August 14, 1941.

Kolbe was beatified by the Catholic Church on October 17, 1971. On October 10, 1982, another Polish saint, Pope Saint John Paul II, canonized Kolbe and declared him a martyr of the Church at a solemn Mass celebrated in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. Four years ago, I told you the story of this martyr here.

A few years ago, two French authors, writer Jean-François Vivier and illustrator Regis Denoël, published a comic book about Kolbe's life. The work has been translated into several languages. I have already seen, at least, versions in French, English and Polish. Yesterday, a Spanish publisher, Homo Legens, informed me that ir has released a Spanish edition of this comic about the Polish martyr, titled "Maximiliano Kolbe. Un santo en Auschwitz" (Maximilian Kolbe: A Saint in Auschwitz). The comic consists of 58 full-color pages that recount the life of this priest, in a format well-suited for distribution among young people. You can purchase it on the Homo Legens website, which allows you to download some sample pages.