maximilian kolbe . maximilian. maximilian kolbe.ugh he had been attracted to the army at the end of world war |, the army at the end of world war i, he was ordained in rome , i, he was ordained in rome, seeing himself as engaged in a spiritual instead of military worldly battle in 1919, he returned to poland , and despite returned to poland, and despite having incurable tubercular ptosis, he set about creating a printing press, producing newspapers and a radio station, believing that the media could believing that the media could be used for good to spread the word of god and encouraged devotion to mary. when the invaded poland in 1939, he could have kept his head down and stopped doing what he was doing. but he didn't. instead, he was sent to auschwitz as a prisoner. 16670. never renounced his faith in stead, he prayed with and comforted his fellow prisoners . comforted his fellow prisoners. one day in late july 1941, the camp siren went off. some prisoners had escaped , including prisoners had escaped, including from block 14, fat

dante's comedy or beethoven, seventh symphony or shark cathedral or the moral of maximilian kolbe arenot merely subject to the satisfying, ludicrous to say that. rather, the sheer density of their objective value arrests us claims us, and sends us on as evangelists. their truth and beauty. they they arrest the will. they lure the will, they direct and send it. how? but we're stuck in the little well-lighted space of our own ego. created own value. what a dull space. deliver the objectively valuable bricks breaks through the carapace of. that sort of self-regard in the presence of such values. we're like the great israelite prophets were placed in the passive voice. we don't so much speak our own truth, but we've heard word of the lord and connection to god i'm making here is not incidental, decorative for objective and the epistemic moral and esthetic orders arrange naturally in hierarchies. which means as thomas aquinas saw so clearly they are named and understood in relation to that which is of highest possible value. the supreme truth, goodness and beauty. when paul introduces hims