{"id":61689,"date":"2025-11-06T07:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=61689"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:55:31","slug":"a-comic-about-the-life-of-st-maximilian-kolbe-martyr-of-auschwitz-now-available-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/11\/06\/a-comic-about-the-life-of-st-maximilian-kolbe-martyr-of-auschwitz-now-available-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"A comic about the life of St Maximilian Kolbe, martyr of Auschwitz, now available in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"

The German death camp of Auschwitz was a place of horror that witnessed an act of heroism in the summer of 1941.<\/p>\n

St Maximilian Kolbe: the Auschwitz martyr who gave his life to save another prisoner<\/a><\/rel>
\nPolish Catholics: the great forgotten when talking about the victims of the Holocaust<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

Three prisoners had escaped, and in retaliation, the Germans chose ten prisoners to be murdered<\/strong>. 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.<\/strong> He was murdered with an injection of carbolic acid on August 14, 1941.<\/p>\n

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Artistic representation of Saint Maximilian Kolbe wearing the striped prisoner's pajamas and the number 16670 that was assigned to him in Auschwitz.<\/div>\n

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<\/strong> 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><\/p>\n

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A sample of Spanish comics about Saint Maximilian Kolbe (Source: Homo Legens<\/a>).<\/div>\n

A few years ago, two French authors, writer Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Vivier and illustrator Regis Deno\u00ebl, published a comic book about Kolbe's life<\/strong>. The work has been translated into several languages. I have already seen, at least, versions in French<\/a>, English<\/a> and Polish<\/a>. Yesterday, a Spanish publisher, Homo Legens<\/strong>, informed me that ir has released a Spanish edition of this comic about the Polish martyr, titled \"Maximiliano Kolbe. Un santo en Auschwitz\"<\/a> (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<\/a>, which allows you to download some sample pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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