[SAINTS no change,MARY]

The reader will come to love St. Catherine Laboure, will see in her a woman of incredible strength and character, of unbelievable constancy, kindness, humility, obedience and self-effacement.

St. Maximilian is the saint of Auschwitz who volunteered to die of starvation/thirst in place of another prisoner. His heroic death in 1941 in the worst of the Nazi concentration camps was only the culmination of an amazing life-for St. Maximilian.