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Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints, the show where we have a conversation about Catholic

saints, heroes and heroines of our Catholic faith through the 2000 year history of the faith.

And today we're talking about St. Maximine Colby, one of the best known saints of our modern era.

I know so many children named Max or Colby.

Yeah, exactly. And I think because it was a great inspiration, my name is Ben Acres, and I work here

at the Augustin Institute, along with my colleague, Dr. Sean Inneros, who's a great professor

in our Catholic graduate school here. Sean, thanks for joining me today. You bet, Ben. Great to be here. Maximine Colby. So he's born in 1894,

dies in 1941. Yeah. Just to kind of give our viewer, if you haven't heard of this great

saint context. Where should we start? There's so many wonderful things to talk about with Colby.

Yeah. As a matter of fact, I think people don't often appreciate

how important a cultural figure he is, you know, and when he appears in church history is is a period

of particular foment.

You know, obviously, St. John Paul referred to him as the patron of our difficult century, right?

Referring to the 20th century.

And there's so much in that statement.

It's almost hard to unpack.

Obviously, he finds himself at the very central event, World War II, a victim of that conflict,

a kind of iconic of, you know, the whole world of victims that were, you know, caught up in

that meat grinder, which was that horrible World War. But there's so much in Colby that reaches

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