• fubo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    In doing so, he would be following after Saint Maximilian Kolbe:

    a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz

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      11 months ago

      The Catholic Church venerates him as the patron saint of amateur radio operators, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, and prisoners.

      That’s uh, …huh…something.