聖高比司鐸（殉道）
聖人在1894年生於波蘭，父親是德國人，母親是波蘭人。少年時加入方濟會，1918年在羅馬晉鐸。聖人一生非常孝愛聖母，又因目睹仇恨教會者，對教會的攻擊，遂發起「聖母無原罪騎士善會」，目的是藉聖母的轉求，幫助罪人回頭，並使仇恨教會者皈依。聖人在本國及各處，積極傳揚這善會。
1930-1936年間，聖人曾到日本傳教。返回波蘭後，適逢第二次世界大戰；他在修院匿藏難民，包括2000名逃避納粹追殺的猶太人。1941年2月，他被德軍逮捕，解往奧斯維茨集中營。1941年7月，有一名囚犯逃獄，德軍要把十名囚犯，活活餓死來抵罪。十人中的一名，哭訴他家中老少苦況；聖人於是挺身代替他受刑。期間，聖人仍領導眾人祈禱唱歌；經過三個星期，只有聖人和其他三人仍活著，最後被注射毒針而死。聖人為愛主愛人，奉獻了生命，時在1941年8月14日。
集禱經
天主，你曾使殉道者聖高比一生熱愛聖母，並充滿拯救人靈的熱忱和對人的愛心；求你使我們藉他的代禱，也能效法他，為光榮你的聖名而勇於犧牲自己，服務人群，好能肖似你的聖子、我們的主耶穌基督，他和你及聖神，是唯一天主，永生永王。亞孟。
Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr
Born on January 8, 1894, in Zduńska-Wola, Poland, Maximilian lamented the existence of hatred and the political split in Poland. On September 4, 1910, Raymond Kolbe entered the novitiate of the Conventual Franciscans. Being invested with the Franciscan habit, he was given the new name of “Friar Maximilian Mary". Having obtained permission from his superiors at the Conventual Franciscan Collegio-Serafico in Rome, this movement, named the “Knights of the Immaculate” (“MILITIA IMMACULATAE” or “M.I.”), was founded on the eve of October 16, 1917, a year before Friar Maximilian’s ordination.
Tracing back, however, to the inhumanity of World War II, where a shattering sense of hopelessness pervaded the death camps as the Nazis took over Poland, this place of infamy became the Calvary of the modern times. Anger and hatred filled the heart of every prisoner until one stepped forward from the prisoners of Block 14, among whom ten had been singled out in retribution for one escapee. Not initially selected, this obscure man – Father Maximilian Kolbe, a Catholic priest – voluntarily took the place of one of the ten, the father of a family, who, along with the others prisoners, had been sentenced to death by starvation. He died on August 14, 1941.
Collect
O God, who filled the Priest andMartyr Saint Maximilian Kolbe with a burning love for theImmaculate Virgin Mary and with zeal for souls and love of neighbor, graciously grant, through his intercession, that striving for your glory by eagerly serving others, we may be conformed, even until death, to your Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
資料來源 References
https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=370
中文內容：《平日彌撒經文》， 香港教區禮儀委員會
English text: Biography - St. Maximilian Kolbe (saintmaximiliankolbe.com)