Come and join us tomorrow 14 August at 10.00 a.m. for Morning Prayer and Holy Rosary as we celebrate the life and witness of St Maksymilian Kolbe, priest and conventual Franciscan friar, martyr of charity. He was sent to Auschwitz and following the escape of a prisoner, saw 10 men selected to be put in an underground bunker and starved to death. One of the men cried out about his wife and children, and Kolbe stepped forward to take his place. He was killed by lethal injection on 14 August 1941. Franciszek Gajowniczek, the man he saved, was invited as a special guest by Pope Paul VI to Maksymilian Kolbe's beatification in 1971, and by Pope John Paul II to his canonisation in 1982. We give thanks for his example of selflessness.