St. Maximilian Kolbe
Friend and Doctor of Prayer
by Fr. Jean-Francoi de Louvencourt, OCSO
Computer disk with text file.
Marytown Press.
The life of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Martyr of Auschwitz, is an open book on prayer. Though he was a profound theologian, his prayer life was not theoretical but a lived one; it is the soul and force of all of his remarkable missionary achievements.
In this masterwork by the Trappist monk Fr. Jean-François de Louvencourt, OCSO, St. Maximilian is presented as a "friend," a lover of prayer, and as a "doctor," a teacher of prayer. He emerges as an authentic "prophet of the civilization of love" (Pope John Paul II) who speaks about God after having been spoken to by God. The insights of St. Maximilian are reference points and lights that allow us to come ever closer to the Holy Trinity–and to the Immaculate One–for our own eternal benefit.
"I believe that this work could become a necessary reference for all
those wanting to follow a program of research on Kolbean spirituality. It
is a work to be received with almost veneration."
Fr. Eugenio Galignano, OFM CONV.
International President, Militia of the Immaculata
Casa Kolbe, Rome
