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Article: Your praises we sing Maximilian Kolbe.
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- Catholic Insight
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- December 1, 2002
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Eighty-five years ago a most momentous October took place: the Bolshevik coup launched Russia into the bloody darkness of atheistic communism; twelve days earlier, the Mother of God had appeared for the sixth consecutive month to three children in Fatima, Portugal. She asked that Russia be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart, and exhorted people to conversion, penance and prayer.
That same October, in the quiet austerity of a Franciscan seminary in Poland, a young man inflamed with love for Mary founded the Militia Immaculata--the Knights of the Immaculate (MI).
The young man was Maximilian Kolbe, and he was clear about the goal of the MI: nothing less ...