August 14, 2026, Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)

Friends of the Rosary, Today, we celebrate the memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, "a martyr of love," as St. Pope Paul VI described him, who offered his life in exchange for the life of a husband and father of two sons, on August 14, at the German Nazi concentration and death camp of Auschwitz in Poland. The Polish 47-year-old Franciscan Conventual priest was killed by the Nazis with a lethal…