E248: The Untold Story of Maximilian Kolbe w/Anthony D’Ambrosio | Lila Rose Show
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4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we explore the incredible story of St. Maximilian Kolbe—a man who kept hope alive in the darkest place on earth. While many know of his heroic sacrifice at Auschwitz, fewer have heard how he inspired his fellow prisoners to sing hymns of faith and defiance as they faced death together.
For guest Anthony D’Ambrosio, Kolbe’s legacy became deeply personal. After enduring eight years of a mysterious illness that stole his ability to sleep, Anthony began to experience visions of St. Maximilian. These encounters became a source of comfort and strength during his darkest nights. When Anthony later traveled to Poland to honor his hero, God placed a new mission before him: to make a film on a shoestring budget that would capture the power of grace even in humanity’s most desperate hour.
Anthony said yes and in the process, he found healing, restoration, and a renewed calling to share Kolbe’s message with the world. Don’t miss this powerful conversation about faith, suffering, and the courage to answer God’s call.
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| 1:02.1 | carvation bunker and I immediately realized that some sort of miracle of hope happened inside of that |
| 1:07.2 | cell. He was God's face to these men and it felt like he was becoming God's face to me. |
| 1:12.3 | How did you imagine and then write and direct the experience of starving to death? |
| 1:18.0 | I was experiencing extreme sleep deprivation for years, both the torture of the sleep deprivation |
| 1:23.3 | itself and then also the torture of not knowing if it would ever end. I really felt Colby saying, |
| 1:28.2 | I've picked you to do this movie. I've never made a movie before. If you're going to ask me to do it, |
| 1:33.4 | then you have to heal me. What does singing sound like when you're starving to death in a bunker |
| 1:40.1 | after giving up your life for a stranger? Today I sit down with Anthony Dambroggio, a young director |
| 1:46.5 | who shares about his debut film, Triumph of the Heart. Anthony shares about his own years of |
| 1:52.5 | debilitating and unexplained sickness, including years of almost no sleep. During this time, |
| 1:57.9 | Anthony had profound spiritual experiences of St. Maximilian Colby and felt called by God to make a film about his life. |
| 2:06.3 | Both this saint and this movie is one that our culture needs to make sense of suffering and to experience the transformative power of Jesus' love. |
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