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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, August 14th, 2019. It is also the feast day of St. Maximilian Colby. Now, St. Maximilian Colby was a Franciscan priest who lived in Poland during the reign of the Nazis in Europe. He did amazing things. St. Maximilian

Colby was incredibly devoted to our blessed mother and incredibly devoted to serving people

and bringing them closer to Mary and through her Jesus Christ. St. Maximilian Colby printed a newspaper to help people come closer to Mary,

and he even sent brothers and went himself to Japan to spread the faith there.

However, he was soon arrested by the Nazis once they took over Poland.

He was sent to Auschwitz.

And well there, he volunteered to die when the Nazis were going to kill 10 people as punishment

for the escape of one person from the camp.

St. Maximilian Colby willingly went to his death and was starved to death in the place

of a man that was a husband and a

father. St. Maximilian Colby is honored as both a saint and a martyr. To be a martyr

means that you died for your faith, that you willingly gave your life for Jesus Christ. So St. Maximilian Colby is who we are

honoring today. Now today, this week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about

the teaching authority of the Catholic Church. We have already discussed that the church

teaches with the authority of Jesus Christ since

he is the one that founded our church.

This authority has been passed down through the popes from Peter all the way to Pope Francis

today.

We also talked about that the Bible isn't enough, that the Bible is the divine

inspired word of God, that it is the most amazing way for us to pray, but it doesn't specifically

address a lot of the social issues that we face in the world today. Today, we are going to talk

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