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August 14, 2011
St. Maximilian remembered as feast approaches National shrine to Polish saint in Libertyville features relics and Auschwitz exhibit
A side chapel at Marytown, the National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe, features a mosaic and relics of the saint. Karen Callaway/Catholic New World
Marytown is home to relics related to St. Maximilian Kolbe, including this prayer book used by Conventual Franciscan brothers when he was the community's superior in Poland. Karen Callaway/Catholic New World
the Auschwitz death camp is commemorated in a Holocaust exhibit in the basement of the shrine. A replica of the cell where St. Maximilian Kolbe died is part of the exhibit. Karen Callaway/Catholic New World
