Immaculata Movement. This was the movement that was founded by this Franciscan Priest called Maximillian Kolbe. He was born in Poland. In his life he contacted Tuberculosis that made him weak and frail. Although he recovered from the sickness but he remained really weak. He formed a community of 800 men, the largest in the world through spreading this movement by a magazine called "The Knight of Immaculata." He then went on to Japan and India to spread on the movement.
Maximilian went to Japan where he built a comparable monastery and then on to India where he furthered the Movement. In 1936 he returned home because of ill health. After the Nazi invasion in 1939, he was imprisoned and released for a time. But in 1941 he was arrested again and sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. On July 31, 1941, in reprisal for one prisoner's escape, ten men were chosen to die. Father Kolbe offered himself in place of a young husband and father. And he was the last to die, enduring two weeks of starvation, thirst, and neglect. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1982. His feast day is August 14th. (catholic.org)
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