“Our aim, our ideal, is to draw everybody close to Mary Immaculate, to become more like her, to let her rule our hearts and our whole being, to let her live and operate in us and by means of us, to let her love God with our hearts so that we belong to her entirely, without holding back. This is our ideal and aim.”

– St. Maximilian Kolbe 
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Saint Maximilian Kolbe may be one of the best-known saints of recent times.  

Father Maximilian wished to win every soul in the world for Jesus through Mary and named his work Militia Immaculatae (Militia of Mary Immaculate) or M.I.

“The M.I. was founded just four days after the final apparition of Our Lady at Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun witnessed by 70,000 people. Our Lady of Fatima had her battle plans and weapons (consecration to her Immaculate Heart, penitence, and the Rosary) ready to checkmate the Communist takeover of Russia, which occurred just a few weeks later."Brother Francis M. Kalvelage, FI, ed.,Kolbe: Saint of the Immaculata, (New Bedford, MA: Franciscans of the Immaculate, 2001), p. 36. 

Saint Maximillian Kolbe is also known for sacrificing his life to save another prisoner while in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War II.