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an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to Catholic Saints podcast.

I am Taylor Kemp, who used to be host of this show, but am not any longer.

You are now normally listening to and accustomed to the wonderful Dr. Elizabeth Klein, but she is not here today.

So sorry that you're back with me.

Today we have a special guest, Anthony

D'Ambrosio. Anthony is the writer and director of a film on St. Maximilian Colby called

Triumph of the Heart. If you haven't heard of it, give it a Google, check it out.

Depending on what time of year you're listening to this, it might be in theaters, but you can find

it somewhere. We are talking today about St. Maximilian Colby, and it's great pleasure to have

Anthony here with us. He's been spending years in the story of St. Maximilian Colby and then

bringing that story to life through his film. So Anthony, it's great to have you. Welcome to the podcast.

Hey, thank you so much for having me. So Anthony, I's great to have you. Welcome to the podcast. Hey, thank you so much for having me. Um, so Anthony, I thought, you know, we, we've done an episode of Catholic Saints

on St. Maximilian Colby. Um, listeners out there, if you want to get the kind of quick

sketch of his life, I highly recommend checking that out. It walks through who Maximilian Colby is,

kind of how he came to be who he was. But it's broad, I would say. That's with Dr. Sean Inerts and

Dr. Ben Acres. Today on this special episode, we're going to get a little narrower and we're

going to go a little bit deeper. So we're going to talk to Anthony about the period of St.

Maximilian Colby's life that he depicts in his film and ask him, you know, what he learned,

what he thought about it, and how we can draw some insight to help us in our life of discipleship.

Maximilian Colby was born in 1894. He died in 1941 in Auschwitz on the eve of the

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