Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was being ...
Last year, the Catholic Church in Poland shared a photo commemorating the 81st anniversary of Saint Maximilian Kolbe’s arrest by the Nazis. The image, the last one taken of the saint before his final ...
As World War II raged around him in Poland, St. Maximilian Kolbe fought for souls using a printing press and another “weapon” — the Miraculous Medal. “Even though a person be the worst sort, if only ...
Last month, we commemorated the 80th anniversary of the martyrdom of Father Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan priest martyred by Nazis during World War II. His life offers a unique testimony ...
On Aug. 14, 1941, the eve of the solemnity of the Assumption, in Block 11 of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a man who had the number 16670 sewn onto his prison uniform was killed by an injection of ...
“What could be more precious to a king than an armor that will safeguard his body in combat?” Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519) As a royal in a “nondemocratic political system,” Maximilian had a ...
PARIS – By the time Maximilian Maeder was 11, he had already begun travelling to different parts of the world on his own for his kitefoiling training sessions and competitions. Despite his ...
In 1864, an ambitious and somewhat delusional 31-year-old Austrian archduke named Maximilian von Hapsburg set sail for Mexico with plans to invade and install himself as an enlightened despot, a ...
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