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Both Maximilian Kolbe and Saint Francis of Assisi are extremely similar. They both lived a life of poverty and they both started a religious movement/order. However Maximilian Kolbe was a martyr and Saint Francis wasn't a martyr. Both Maximilian Kolbe and Saint Francis make you think and makes you want to donate and do things to help others.

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Personally I believe that the hardest part about becoming a Franciscan Friar will be giving up money. My reason for this is because you will have really bad food and you will probably not eating beef and some foods. The result of this can mean reducing your life span. Living a monastery will difficult doesn't if it is a Catholic one or not. You won't or have nearly access to video games, entertainment like movies and shows as well as you will have to live without some luxuries. You will be mainly helping out people or praying. The clothes will probably not be too comfortable but the same is usually with all the monastery's even the one's that belong to others when I say that you will be at peace and feel a sense of accomplish meant even if it is just for prayer or for helping others.

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https://www.catholicireland.net/saintoftheday/st-maximilian-kolbe-1894-1941-franciscan-martyr/

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

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

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

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Saint Maximilian Kolbe is a polish Franciscan Friar that was born on the 8th of January 1894 in Zduńska Wola Poland and died on the 4 August 1941 in the Auschwitz, Poland. His birth name is Raymund Kolbe. He is the patron saint of amateur radio operators, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, and the pro-life movement. He was canonised on 10 October 1982 by Pope John Paul II, he was declared martyr of charity. His feast day is on the the 14th of August.

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He had a polish mother and a german father. His family was poor and it became worse when his father was hanged for fighting for Poland's independence. Saint Maximilian Kolbe was religious from an early age. One day he remember seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.She appeared to him holding two crowns, a white and red one. The white one meant purity and the red mean he would be a martyr. She offered the crowns and he accepted both. At the age of 13 he and his brother went and joined the franciscan friars. He was then given the name Maximilian.

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Maximilian Kolbe went to Rome to study and was ordained a priest in 1919. After he was ordained he started a movement called the Knights of the Immaculate. It was said that whenever he had a meeting he would a statue of Mary with him. I believe that Saint Maximilian Kolbe chose to be a Franciscan Friar because he could relate to them because both the Franciscan Friars and him were poor and yet they both gave what they could I believe this also made him a good candidate to be a Franciscan Friar. Before he was captured and sent to Auschwitz, he shielded over 2,000 Jews from the 🤬's and that was why he was imprisoned.

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He was keep captive for many years. He and other prisoners lived in horrific conditions. In 1941 a man from Kolbe's barracks had escaped, this resulted in the soldiers from chasing 10 random prisoners from the same barrack to starve in cell block 13. One of the men picked was Franciszek Gajowniczek pleading that he had a family. At this point Kolbe stepped in volunteered to take his place. Kolbe was starved and after 3 weeks only Maximilian Kolbe and three other prisoners were still alive. They were given a lethal injection. Franciszek Gajowniczek after he was release went to the Knights of the Immaculate and told them of what Maximilian Kolbe did. He was then canonisation by Pope John Paul II in 1982.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33H24aw0pig

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Saint Francis is the patron saint of nature and animals. He was born 1181 in the town of Assisi and died 48 years later in Assisi on the 3rd of October 1226. Saint Francis was canonised two years his death on July the 16th, 1228 by his former protector, Pope Gregory IX. His feast day is on the 4th of October.

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Saint Francis early life mainly consisted of partying and drinking. His was a rich man, as a result Saint Francis grew up spoiled. As a child he dreamed of becoming a heroic knight. All of his fathers wealth came from being a silk merchant

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In 1202 a war broke out between Assisi and Perugia. This was Saint Francis's chance to become a great knight and he took it. Towards the end of the war Saint Francis was taken hostage and held for ransom. It took a year for Saint Francis's for to pay the ransom. In that year was keep in the dungeon where he started to receive visions from God. Once release he continued to receive visions from God and because of this he was a different person. He no longer went out partying, instead he gave food and money to the poor.

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One day Saint Francis received another vision of God. This God asked him to rebuild the churches. Saint Francis sold his father's horse and his clothes to rebuild a church. His father took him to the bishop claiming that his son was insane. Saint Francis told the bishop of his vision of God. The bishop explained to Saint Francis that he needed to pay his father for the donkey and the clothes. Saint Francis replied by taking of his clothes and saying that these clothes were his father's so he could not wear them. He told his father and the bishop that God was the only father he recognised. Saint Francis did many miracles but two of them were: he healed a crippled man's son because they offered him hospitality, he also healed, another tale is of a paraplegic that made the sign of the cross in front of Saint Francis  and he was healed.
Saint Francis lived a poor life preaching and covering people. He begged for food and always gave to people even when he did't have anything to give.

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The Franciscan Friars is a Catholic order found by Saint Francis on the 24th of February 1209. The Franciscan Friars is and order with two main branches The Franciscans and The Poor Ladies they are more or less the same thing with the only major difference is that The Poor Ladies is for females and The Franciscans is for males. They both follow the values of Saint Francis. They wear tunics just like Saint Francis. They spend most of their time helping others. For food they sometimes go door to door asking for food. They spend 4 hours a day praying.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYynL7fH0P8