Monument to St Maximilian Maria Kolbe - Niepokalanow monastery, Poland.

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Monument to St Maximilian Maria Kolbe designed by Faldyga-Solska in 1994. Niepokalanow - City of the Immaculate Mother of God, apr. 40 km to the west from Warsaw, Poland - consists of the Franciscan church and monastery founded in 1927 by Father Maximilian Kolbe. Father Kolbe was arrested by the Germans and taken to Auschwitz during the World War 2, where he gave his life for another inmate. He was canonized as a saint-martyr of the Catholic Church in 1982.

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Size: 2949px × 4424px
Location: Niepokalanow, Poland.
Photo credit: © dario photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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