From the back cover: "In August 1941, a Polish Catholic Priest volunteers for a brutal death in the punishment cells at Auschwitz. Forty years later, he is canonised a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.... Father Maximilian Kolbe emerges as a zealous, single minded priest, filled with a very Polish devotion to the Virgin Mary. He used his immense organising abilities to build monasteries, found nespapers, travel in the Far East as a Franciscan missionary. Yet, after a remarkable career committed to the service of organised Catholicism, he willingly laid down his life to save one fellow-prisoner. His death in a Nazi camp may symbolise the sufferings of Poland. But more, he showed his companions that "life is still worth living and hatred still has't got the last word." Perhaps that is a meaning for martyrdom in the modern world." Nihil Obstat: Jerome Curtin, D.C.I., Censor Deputatus Imprimatur: + Dermot, Archbishop of Dublin, 1 July 1982.

Maximilian of Auschwitz

Desmond Forristal

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Maximilian of Auschwitz

The state of the nation: Ireland since the sixties