Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Impatient Captors Ended His Life... St Maximillian Kolbe

In 1941, the Nazis imprisoned Father Maximilian in the Auschwitz death camp.
There he offered his life for another prisoner and was condemned to slow death in a starvation bunker.
On August 14, 1941, his impatient captors ended his life with a fatal injection.

Pope John Paul II canonized Maximilian as a "martyr of charity" in 1982.

St. Maximilian Kolbe is considered a patron of journalists, families, prisoners, the pro-life movement and the chemically addicted.

Most hospices have orders to keep the dying comfortable by giving Morphine supp every two hours (often needed or not, some will follow that to the letter... morphine also suppresses respirations and can add to the dying process, speeding things up... and sometimes, I wonder about its so frequent use by some.... ordered as needed, not every two hours, remember...)

Terri may or may not have this order.... but if it is there, Terri, too, could be a victim of an impatient captor.

God have mercy on them all.
St Maximillian Kolbe, pray for Terri.
Cardinal Clemens August von Galen, come to her aid.

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