St. Maximilian Martyr of Charity in the hell of Auschwitz, St. Maximilian, devoted servant of the Blessed Virgin. You were baptized in the Church of the Assumption in Zduńska Wola in Poland, you founded the monastery of Niepokalanów – the City of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and you cared for those condemned with you as you died on the Vigil of the Solemnity of the Assumption, please pray for us to our Lady Mary.