Spiritual things bore most people today, unfortunately. The practical, material dimension of human ability and activity seems interesting for the modern world. How many people know about this power and activity? How many accept it? How many mimic? How much can you make and lose? How much does it take to defy this? These are issues applicable to the world. What can a monk in the world, surviving in a mediocre cell, washing in the icy water and speaking of the Immaculate Mary on all occasion?
The text is simply a fragment of the book Jan Lupuszinski “God Introducts into Polishness. Saints and Mystics on the Mission of Poles”, Fronda Publishing House
Why, then, did individual like Father Maximilian make the full progressive planet of the Second Republic passionate? A Franciscan late asked me a amazing question: did I see any image of Maximilian's father alone among people? I made large eyes.
– delight note: there were always at least 2 strong brothers around him," he said.
Human strength in the service of the Immaculate One? – I thought. – I did not know about this aspect of Father Maximilian’s work.
It was very hard to match his intellectual class. In simplicity and clarity, he took in many more than the most prominent revolutionary agitators. As for the actions...
In Niepokalanów, “Meximilian’s father celebrated the first Mass on Saturday, November 12, 1927. The people were kneeling on the bare ground [...] The level was not yet there and the mediocre shed [...] it was time for the liquidation of the Grodzień facility. For respective days the wagons loaded with iron had been leaving for Szymanów. There were 8 of them (five years ago Father Maximilian came to Grodna with 1 tiny suitcase). Recently, “The Knight” has increased to 65,000 copies, and MI members were over 100,000.” 11 years later in Niepokalanów there were more than 600 brothers, mostly young, and among them – as it turned out – there were besides saints.
Initially, “there were only 2 priests in the Niepokalanów: Father Maximilian and his own brother, Father Alfons [of baptism: Francis] Kolbe. The 2 could not do not only editorial work but besides pastoral work for the brothers. So erstwhile the state visited them in May 1928, they both asked him to send priests to aid them. In response, they heard jokingly the words, “Set up a boarding home in Niepokalanów, and you will have many priests here in the future”. [...] did not meet on the “food”. They recognized this message as the voice of the Lord.
[...] was amazed by the provincial father erstwhile he shortly saw Alfons' father before him with plans for a small Seminary in Niepokalanów. You're grabbing me for words," replied the tense provincial. Go back to your average work. The 2 brothers of the priests of Kolbe were not besides afraid with the answer of the superior.
[...] The state stopped being calm. After prayer, he sat down at the desk, and boldly wrote, “In the name of holy obedience, for the glory of the Almighty God, in honor of the Immaculate Mary and the glory of our Order, I command the defender to establish an internment in our mediocre monastery in Niepokalanów for the year 1929/1930”. [...] Father Maximilian accepted the provincial letter as something completely average and immediately placed an announcement of the beginning of the boarding home in the July issue of Knight [...] the state was afraid of the madness of Father Maximilian. He personally went to Niepokalanów to suspend the announcement. It was besides late. 120 000 copies of the Knight went out into the planet with an announcement.’
The first issue of “The Knight of the Immaculate” was published in January 1922 in 5,000 copies. In the large part of the zo- stood distributed for free. There was no money for the second number. Father Maximilian went to the state for rescue. "He receives a polite but negative answer: This is how it ends, my dear, erstwhile individual with a hoe grabs the sun". Father Maximilian, however, found a tiny package on the altar, with the inscription “For You, Immaculate”. There was adequate inside for a second number. Let us add that during this time Father Maximilian was very sick and any thought that he was about to leave for the Lord.
A twelve years later, in 1939, the Knight of the Immaculate was published in a circulation of 684,000 copies for permanent subscribers. In addition, about 100,000 were spent on so - called propaganda, or a full of almost 800,000 efforts. Even a million copies were produced once. The Knight was edited to include as much material as possible for priests preaching catechesis during the Sunday and Christmas Masses. In Niepokalanów, 181,000 copies were released until 1938. In 1939 the “Little Knight of the Immaculate” published in 309,000 copies was created. Let us add that in those years, erstwhile tv has not yet stolen time from families, friends, neighbors and acquaintances, the lyrics from Knight or Knight were read in the homes and discussed by readers.
150,000 copies were printed in Latin Miles Immaculatae, distributed all over the world. The “Little Journal” came out in 137,000 copies, and the Sunday edition counted 220,000 copies. In 1939 alone (until September) a full of over 169 million copies of the tiny diary were issued. The calendar of the Immaculate Knights for 1939 counted 376,000 copies. There were books, prayer books, pictures.
According to the estimates of the father of prof. Leon Dyczewski OFMConv – known to me from Franciscan relations – the content of non-pokalanowski publications reached straight or indirectly about 1 3rd of Poland, and could influence the attitude of even wider circles. He told me years ago that erstwhile a revolution raged on the Spanish front, and her advancement with enthusiasm was propagated in the advancement of the interwar press, a photograph from the Spanish front was placed on the front page of the "Little Journal": a group of communists shooting the statue of Jesus Christ at Guadalajara – and so Poles learned what was truly happening in Spain.
Prior to planet War II, the Knighthood of the Immaculate had a full of 691,219 people recorded in the non-pokalan books. Very many were recorded outside of Niepokalanów, so the full number of knights was estimated to be around a million. After the war, on 6 July 1947 my grandmother, Anna of Jędrzejewski Łopuszowska, joined the Knighthood of the Immaculate. I don't know under what circumstances. I got her. Diplomacy of the Immaculate Militia, with the moderator's signature, heavy bitten by the tooth of time. It had to be signed. in blank A fewer years earlier, it is hand-held, made a good steel rod and a black ink signature: O. Maximiljan M. Kolbe. I ask the proofreaders not to correct this ‘j’ on behalf of the saint – he himself signed, according to the rules of spelling.
Each of us is created by a good God for himself and is called to eternal life with him in heaven. In freedom, we respond to this gift and the calling of God. Those who do not believe that this choice besides reflects on the life of the temporal, our own and our fellows, let them read the book of Father Władysław Kluz OCD which the Franciscans have just quoted and published. 47 years of age.
It is simply a evidence of the line of life and the memory of the remaining 2 people who erstwhile lived on earth: Father Maximilian Maria Kolb of OfmConv, priest and friar, Pole and saint of the Catholic Church, and Rudolf Hössie SS, German, commandant of Auschwitz. The lines of their lives cut in 1941. The first on the eve of the presumption of the Immaculate Virgin Mary ended her life at the age of 47 in a hunger bunker in Auschwitz as 1 of millions of victims of the German genocide. The second fewer years later, besides at the age of 47, after a fair criminal trial, ended his temporal life on a gallows set close the area of the camp sanctified by the blood of the martyrs he shed. Father Kluz's book showed me my granddaughter, age 12. She was just reading it, but she put it off for a while due to the fact that she seemed to be “heavy.” I hope he reads to the end and discovers in it the glow of eternal love.
At the conclusion of the reflection on Saint Maximilian a tiny passage from The Madman of the Immaculate Maria Winowska:
"If this is the will of the Immaculate One, I would like to put her homestead in Japan and start publishing the Knight in nipponese as shortly as possible. My father was a provincial.
- Do you have money for that?
- No, no!
- Do you talk Japanese?
- No, but I'll learn.
- Do you at least have a backrest, friends, any kind of safety back there?
-No, but the Immaculate will fix it."
Saints can do more.
The text is simply a fragment of the book Jan Lupuszinski “God Introducts into Polishness. Saints and Mystics on the Mission of Poles”, Fronda Publishing House
