{"id":1296,"date":"2019-08-14T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:01:00","slug":"st-maximilian-kolbe-this-short-video-from-the-vatican-on-his-feast-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"St. Maximilian Kolbe &#8211; this short video from the Vatican on his Feast Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4c25bab200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maximilian kolbe\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4c25bab200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4c25bab200b-300wi\" style=\"width: 295px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Maximilian kolbe\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, in August, 1941. Just hit the link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/church\/news\/2018-08\/maximilian-kolbe-martyr-auschwitz.html#play\">Unable to bear this, Fr. Kolbe stepped silently forward, took off his cap, and stood before the commandant and said, &#39;I am a Catholic priest. Let me take his place. I am old. He has a wife and children.&#39; The Franciscan priest pointed with his hand to the condemned Franciszek Gajowniczek and repeated &#39;I am a Catholic priest from Poland; I would like to take his place, because he has a wife and children.&#39;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, in August, 1941. Just hit the link. Unable to bear this, Fr. Kolbe stepped silently forward, took off his cap, and stood before the commandant and said, &#39;I am a Catholic priest. Let me take his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7618,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}