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    "content": "Maximilian Kolbe — feast August 14.",
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      "slug": "saint-maximilian-kolbe",
      "name": "Maximilian Kolbe",
      "latinName": "Maximilianus Kolbe",
      "feastMonth": 8,
      "feastDay": 14,
      "feastLabel": "August 14",
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      "commonsClass": "martyr-one",
      "url": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/saint-maximilian-kolbe/",
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  "name": "Maximilian Kolbe",
  "latinName": "Maximilianus Kolbe",
  "feastMonth": 8,
  "feastDay": 14,
  "feastLabel": "August 14",
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  "imageUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Fr.Maximilian-Kolbe-1939.jpg",
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  "commonsClass": "martyr-one",
  "url": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/saint-maximilian-kolbe/",
  "jsonUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/saint-maximilian-kolbe.json",
  "bodyMarkdown": "Saint Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941. Born in 1894, he founded the Militia Immaculatae and was a pioneer of using modern media for evangelization. When a prisoner was selected for death by starvation, Kolbe stepped forward and offered his life instead. He was killed by lethal injection after two weeks.",
  "bodyHtml": "<p>Saint Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941. Born in 1894, he founded the Militia Immaculatae and was a pioneer of using modern media for evangelization. When a prisoner was selected for death by starvation, Kolbe stepped forward and offered his life instead. He was killed by lethal injection after two weeks.</p>"
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