All the Immaculata: Conferences of St. Maximillion Kolbe 1919-1937 is a 2006 book that reproduces all the conference speeches by Saint Maximillion Kolbe. Most of these talks are from two periods and locations – Niepokalanow, Poland, and Nagasaki, Japan. The actual texts of these conferences do not exist. The conference notes in All the Immaculata: Conferences of St. Maximillion Kolbe 1919-1937 that follow are transcriptions made by friars in attendance.
Often, the notetaking friars hid behind another friar to avoid notice because, in his humility, Saint Maximilian Kolbe did not believe his words to be worthy of saving. Saint Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die at Auschwitz. Kolbe was outstanding. Has there ever been anyone more heroic than him?
All the Immaculata Summary
All the Immaculata is easy to summarize. It is the text of 104 conference speeches given by Saint Maximillion Kolbe, presented chronologically. With the surreptitious recording of what Kolbe had to say in All the Immaculata: Conferences of St. Maximillion Kolbe 1919-1937, it is like the Saint is talking to us. His words are inspirational. The editor of All the Immaculata: Conferences of St. Maximillion Kolbe 1919-1937, Brother Robert Cook, himself a Franciscan Friar, has done readers a service by compiling these speeches in one book.
It may be good to learn a little about Saint Maximillion Kolbe since it is his words that are rendered in All the Immaculata: Conferences of St. Maximillion Kolbe 1919-1937. Saint Maximillian Kolbe was born 8 January 8, 1894, and died August 14, 1941 was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz, which was located in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur radio station, and founding several other organizations and publications.
The Conventional Franciscans
Maximillion Kolbe was in the Order of minor Conventional Franciscan friars. Readers should know them, they are the Catholic Priests who wear brown habits with white cords. They are identified by O.F.M Conv. after their names.
There are currently 4,076 members of this order, and it is not surprising that Kolbe had a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary because the Order’s founder, Saint Francis of Assisi, did. It is for this reason that Kolbe spoke so glowingly about the Blessed Virgin Mary in the speeches recorded in All the Immaculata: Conferences of St. Maximillion Kolbe 1919-1937.
The current status of the Conventional Franciscans is that they are in 30 provinces, 18 custodians, and 460 Friaries worldwide. The United States consists of four provinces. Friars serve in a variety of roles, like a conventional priest, including teacher, they serve in homes and shelters, and with Catholic Relief Services. It is important to note that the Order of Minor Conventional Franciscan friars takes a vow of poverty.
There are several noteworthy members of the Conventional Franciscans, including five saints
Pedro de Regalado, c. 1390 to 1456, reformer.
John of Dukla, c. 1414 to 1484, Polish priest.
Giuseppe da Copertino (1603 to 1663), mystic.
Francesco Antonio Fasani (1681 to 1742), friar.
Maximilian Maria Kolbe ( 1894 to 1941), martyred during the Nazi Occupation of Poland.
John of Dukla, c. 1414 to 1484, Polish priest.
Giuseppe da Copertino (1603 to 1663), mystic.
Francesco Antonio Fasani (1681 to 1742), friar.
Maximilian Maria Kolbe ( 1894 to 1941), martyred during the Nazi Occupation of Poland.
Conclusion
All the Immaculata: Conferences of St. Maximillion Kolbe 1919-1937 is a good book because it is like Saint Maximillion Kolbe talking directly to us, since these are his words from various conferences he spoke at in Poland and Japan in the first half of the twentieth century. All the Immaculata: Conferences of St. Maximillion Kolbe 1919-1937 is an important book because it is like the saints talking directly to us. The words spoken by Saint Maximillion Kolbe are talking directly to us. They give an important insight into how his mind works.
