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A day in memory of Maximilian Kolbe

Colobraro - That day, in the concentration camp of Auschwitz, the guards had selected ten prisoners. Had to be confined in the so-called "bunker of death," without food and water, where they would die of starvation within days. A few days before a prisoner of the camp had tried to escape. And the guards, to prevent similar attempts, they decided to warn the prisoners with a long and exemplary punishment.

Gajowniczek Francis, one of the ten selected for the bunker, he began to cry and scream out loud. He begged for mercy to be saved the family waiting for him to home. Suddenly, the crowd of prisoners, he raised a hand. He was a little over forty, one of many prisoners, serial number 16670. He made a proposal that all seemed unthinkable: he would enter the bunker, instead of the father of the family. The guards agreed, Gajowniczek's life was saved.

Fifteen days later, in that bunker without food and water, the man was still alive. He was killed along with other prisoners, with an injection of carbolic acid. It was August 14, 1941. The man's name was Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest. In 1981, it became St. Maximilian Kolbe, canonized by his fellow countryman John Paul II, who called him that day "martyr of charity". The ceremony was also attended Gajowniczek, the man saved by his sacrifice and then died in 1995.

If he had not made that gesture, perhaps today would be remembered as one of the many missing serial numbers in that field. But his life, but in the normality of everyday life, it was already full of that energy and that passion for the man who would make him capable of so great a gift. Father Kolbe was a living man, earnestly passionate and intimately linked to human relationships. He loved the company of his intensely religious order, was sociable and joyful. And, above all, knew forgive. Always serious, but never full of hatred toward those who showed himself incapable of respecting the rules of the college. "We need to pray for sinners", he always said.

This and other evidence on his life has stood Monsignor Francis Nolen, bishop of the Diocese of Tursi-Lagonegro, at a meeting organized at the local school Colobraro, a branch Isabella Morra of the Comprehensive Valsinni, on the Day of Remembrance. E 'is a new, beautiful and amazing to recall a historical memory, often reduced, even in schools, and disinterested in formal ritual celebration. The ears of the boys got a news even in the most atrocious, the symbol of evil and stupidity of man, it was possible something so great and beautiful. Not a nice thing to tell, moreover, that "Memory" would ?

Pino Suriano - written for the newspaper of Basilicata