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Raymond Kolbe was born in the year of Our Lord 1894 to a poor, deeply pious Polish family. After a vision of Our Lady that foretold his martyrdom, Raymond entered the Franciscans, taking the name Maximilian. He entered seminary in Rome, where he founded the Militia of the Immaculata against Communism and Freemasonry. Before his ordination he was nearly killed by tuberculosis, and suffered poor health the rest of his life. Returning to a newly independent Poland, Fr. Maximilian began producing Catholic publications. He and four brothers traveled to Japan in 1930, despite speaking no Japanese, and began a monastery in Nagasaki that survived the atomic bomb and still operates today. Back in Poland, Fr. Maximilian began a Catholic radio station. After the Nazi invasion, Fr. Maximilian was arrested for his work, which was deemed subversive, and he was eventually transferred to Auschwitz. When a prisoner with a wife and young children was selected for a retributive execution, Fr. Maximilian volunteered to take his place. Already near death from starvation and abuse, he was killed by lethal injection on this day in the year of Our Lord 1941. He is considered a patron of Catholic media, and especially Catholic radio.
THE vigil of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary.
At Rome, the birthday [into heaven] of the blessed priest Eusebius, who for the defense of the Catholic faith was shut up in a room of his own house by the Arian emperor Constantius, where constantly persevering in prayer for seven months, he rested in peace. His body was removed by the priests Gregory and Orosius, and buried in the cemetery of Callistus, on the Appian road.
In Dalmatia, St. Ursicius, a martyr, who was beheaded for Christ, after suffering various torments, under the emperor Maximian, and the governor Aristides.
In Africa, St. Demetrius, martyr.
At Apamea, in Syria, St. Marcellus, bishop and martyr, who was killed by the exasperated Gentiles, for having pulled down a temple of Jupiter.
At Todi, St. Callistus, bishop and martyr.
In the island of AEgina, St. Athanasia, widow, celebrated for monastical observance, and the gift of miracles.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.