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Pope advances sainthood cause of missionaries killed trying to save Indigenous
May 23, 2025
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV has advanced the sainthood causes of two missionaries whose murders in the Amazon jungle in Ecuador led to the protection of remote Indigenous peoples from encroaching extractive industries. Among a series of decrees published by the Vatican May 22, Pope Leo recognized the sacrifice of Spanish Bishop Alejandro […]
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Maximillian Kolbe and World War II Polish Remembrance Day
August 13, 2020
Each year the Polish-American community of Buff alo hosts a Mass commemorating the life and death of Maximilian Maria Kolbe, the 47-year-old Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who gave up his life in exchange for that of another Polish prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp. In Auschwitz, Maximilian was prisoner number 16670, a Polish Catholic, one […]
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