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The message I received that a single vision of God or Mary has influenced their whole life and they died in the name of God. They have both inspired me to change my daily life and devote my life to God because he will change my life for the better.

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-Both Saints have been canonised and have become a patron saint of something

-They were both a friar

-They both wanted to be a knight or a soldier

-They both had visions and converted

-They have both been imprisoned

-They both have performed miracles

-They both helped the poor

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What do the lives of both Saints make you think about?

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What do the lives of both Saints make you think about?

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Both Saints made me believe that God will make you a better version of yourself and use your heart to use God in our daily lives and spread the good news of Jesus.

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Saint Francis of Assisi is a saint canonised two years after his death. He was canonised by Pope Gregory IX. Today, he is the patron saint of nature and animals, ecologists.

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Saint Francis of Assisi is an Italian preacher, monk and a friar. He was born in 1181/1182 in Assisi, Italy. He died on the 3rd of October, 1226 at Assisi, in Italy. He grew up living a privileged life as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant. Francis loved to learn and sing songs as a boy. He also aspired to be a knight. His father wanted him to become a businessman and taught him all about the French culture.

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At the age of 19, St Francis went to a battle against a nearby town. Francis was captured and taken prisoner in a dungeon for a year, before his father paid and he was sent free. Over the next few years, Francis begun getting visions from God. The first vision was when he was sick with a high fever, he thought that God wanted him to fight in the Crusades but he got another vision and it was to help the sick. He also was praying at the church of Saint Dominic and he was praying under the crucifix and Jesus spoke to him and said rebuild my church.

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Saint Maximillian Kolbe is a saint canonised on the 30th of January, in 1969, by Pope John Paul II. He is the patron saint amateur radio operators, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, and the pro-life movement.

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Saint Francis was living a pure life, going around and spreading the messages of God. Therefore, his Franciscan friars followed him. He wanted to help the poor and live like the poor. He lived in poverty and compassion for God. As Franciscan followers of Christ, they build partnerships with Catholic women and men who are inspired to live and serve in harmony with economically poor communities across the globe.

Each spend most of their days praying or attending mass. Each Friar have different work to do: Studies,  Pastoral Work, Office Work, Retreats and Missions, and may more. They eat all types of food, fish, bread, chicken, ducks, geese, they also ate peas, cabbage, cheese, eggs and fruit. They wore a thick tunic, woollen stockings, night shoes and a long rope with a cross attached.

Miracles-
"A married couple had a daughter that they adored. One day, she suddenly died, the mother collapsed in grief and prayed to St Francis. St Francis appeared and assured the fate of their daughter. Shorty after, the girl awoke and acted like nothing happened."

" A man of Assisi, was mutilated and his eyes were taken. He was carried to the San Francisco church, after crying and begging for his innocence, and pleaded to saint Francis. Francis asked grace from God. Three days later, the man had eyes."

A woman possessed lived in in the City of Castello, Francesco passing there, drove out the demon and freed the woman from harm."

"One of his monastery in Japan survived after a bombing."

Orders-
First Order- Began in  1209, first orders of the Roman Catholic Church, it consist of men who follow the rules of Saint Francis.

Second Order- The foundation of the Poor Ladies, which was the first order for the nuns. It began in 1212, it consist of woman who follow the rules of Saint Clair.

Third Order- The Brothers and Sisters of Penance, began in 1221, was made by Saint Francis, for those who were unable to join either the first or second order, because of marriage or other factors.

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Saint Maximillian Kolbe is an Franciscan friar and a martyr. He was born as Raymund Kolbe on January 8th, 1894 in the Kingdom of Poland.  He died on the 14th of August, 1894 at Auschwitz, in Poland. He promoted Mary and is known as Apostle of Consecration to Mary. His father was German and his mother was Polish. His parents were really poor. In 1914, his father was captured by Russians and was hung for fighting for Poland.

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http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=370

https://www.biographyonline.net/spiritual/maximilian-kolbe.html

https://www.biography.com/people/st-francis-of-assisi-21152679

http://digilander.libero.it/raxdi/inglese/miraf.htm

http://www.capgb.org/about-us/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-friar

https://franciscanmissionservice.org/about/our-mission/

http://catholicism.org/maximilian-kolbe.html

https://acatholiclife.blogspot.com.au/2005/09/st-maximilian-kolbe.html

https://mum6kids.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/the-kolbe-legacy/

Prayer of Saint Francis

Song by Sarah McLachlan

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Saint Francis lasting resonance with millions of followers across the globe. He has many Franciscan and churches under his name.

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Lord make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy

O divine master grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled as to console
to be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that we receive
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it's in dying that we are born to eternal life
Amen.

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Saint Francis has inspired me to let go of the bad habits and turn to God for answers.

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Kolbe was very religious from an early life. He encountered an early childhood vision from the Virgin Mary. This was significant because the Virgin Mary approached him with two crowns, one white and the other red. The white one meant to persevere in purity and the red was to become a martyr, he accepted both. At the age of 13, his brother and himself joined the Franciscans in Lwow. In 1910, he was given the religious name Maximillian and was admitted as an initiate. He took his final vows as a monk in 1914

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At the age of 21, Saint Kolbe received a degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He organised the Militia Immaculate (Army of the Immaculate One) after witnessing protests against Pope St. Pius X and Benedict XV. His goal was to work conversion of sinners and enemies of the Church, he would do this with the intercession of Mary.

Kolbe returned to Poland after becoming sick, and the invasion of the Germans happened and WWII started. He remained in the monastery. He opened up a hospital and aid those in need. Kolbe refused to sign a document which said he is German citizen and continued to work in the monastery and provide shelter for the refugees. He hid 2,000 Jews from persecution.

On February 17, 1941, the monastery shut down and he was arrested and taken to  Auschwitz. After two months,  men were chosen to face death by starvation as a warning to the escapes. He volunteered himself to take place of a man with a family. In his last days, he prayed the Our Lady and remained in the last group to survive after two weeks of dehydration and starvation. For an instant kill, the guards injected him with a lethal drug, Kolbe didn't protest and lifted his left arm and calmly awaited death.

Miracle-
"St. Maximilian had built a monastery in Japan during his missionary days there. He built it on the “wrong” side of a mountain just outside Nagasaki. Even though the Japanese builders warned him that he had chosen the wrong side, he insisted on it.

When the bomb was dropped some years later the Franciscans were shielded by the mountain and survived. There was a Church and monastic house in the  middle of Hiroshima as well which despite being right in the middle of the bomb site remained untouched."

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St. Maximilian did much work in Japan and Poland.  His love of the Blessed Mother helped him shine. He inspired others to give up things that aren't needed for those who actually need it.

The legacy of his work and love does live after him.

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St. Maximilian, amidst the hate and lonely misery of Auschwitz, you brought love into the lives of fellow captives and sowed the seeds of hope amidst despair. You bore witness to the world by word and deed that "Love alone creates." Help me to become more like you. With the Church and Mary and you, may I proclaim that "Love alone creates." To the hungry and oppressed, the naked and homeless, the scorned and hated, the lonely and despairing, may I proclaim the power of Christ's love, which endures forever and ever. Amen.

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How can we live out his Catholic Orders?

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How can we live out his Catholic Orders?

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Saint Kolbe is a inspiring man and his story has inspired me to be more like him and apply God in my daily life.