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In October 1982, the Polish priest, Father Maximilian Kolbe, was canonised for sacrificing his own life to save another prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two. Simon Watts uses the 91福利社 archives to tell the story of the man the Vatican considers the 鈥淧atron Saint of the 20th Century鈥. (Photo: Maximilian Kolbe at his monastery in Poland in 1927. Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)
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