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St. Maximilian Kolbe
He built a publishing operation that reached a million readers, sheltered refugees and Jews when the Nazis came, and at Auschwitz stepped out of the line to die in another man's place.
Feast August 14 · Poland
St. Monica
When two people were at odds she would carry nothing between them except what might bring them back together. She prayed for her son through seventeen years of his resistance, and she got him.
Feast August 27 · Tagaste, North Africa, and Ostia, Italy