Saint Maximilian Kolbe/Footprints

Footprints for Saint Maximilian Kolbe are tour-depth life-trace places — walkable stops, shrines, and mission sites for pilgrimage maps. They are not a second copy of the five infobox significant locations, and not every church dedicated to this person. Full catalog: Footprints · trails: Tour Regional Trails · nearby: NearMe. This tour: 7 stop(s) stored in Cargo VisitAccess: Public = open to pilgrims · Limited = hours/appointment or exterior · Private / Unknown = do not treat as a tourist stop. Prefer a real source URL before marking Public. Editors: Add or edit stops with form · Form help · Template fields Please keep life-trace scope (Footprints / lab SCOPE). A later fact-pack re-publish may overwrite form edits unless the YAML pack is updated too.

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Footprints

Main article: Footprints

• Niepokalanów – City of the Immaculate (founding monastery) (Franciscan media apostolate) [Public] Convent – Niepokalanów, Teresin, Poland, Teresin, Masovian, Poland
  • Year: 1927
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Warsaw
  • Monastery-city founded by St. Maximilian Kolbe for Marian Franciscan media and mission. Primary public Polish pilgrimage campus outside Warsaw.
  • Sources: https://www.niepokalanow.pl/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe

• Niepokalanów – City of the Immaculate founded by Kolbe (Founding & media apostolate) [Public] Convent – Niepokalanów, Teresin, Poland, Teresin, Masovian, Poland
  • Year: 1927
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Warsaw
  • Franciscan “City of the Immaculate” monastery-press complex founded by Maximilian Kolbe before Auschwitz. Major public Polish pilgrimage campus west of Warsaw.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niepokalan%C3%B3w; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe

• Auschwitz-Birkenau – Cell of St. Maximilian Kolbe (Block 11) (Martyrdom) [Public] Other – Auschwitz I, ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603 Oświęcim, Poland, Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland
  • Year: 1941
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Kraków
  • Death cell of Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another prisoner (Aug 1941). Public museum visit under solemn rules — pair with JPII 1979 visit Footprint.
  • Sources: https://www.auschwitz.org/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe

• Zduńska Wola – birthplace (Childhood) [Public] Outdoor – Zduńska Wola, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland, Zduńska Wola, Łódź, Poland
  • Year: 1894
  • Diocese: Diocese of Włocławek
  • Birth town of Rajmund Kolbe (1894). Public municipal memorial landscape.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe

• Rome – Seraphicum / international Franciscan formation (Formation) [Limited] School – Rome, Italy (Seraphicum / Franciscan student years), Rome, Lazio, Italy
  • Year: 1912
  • Diocese: Diocese of Rome
  • Roman studies and ordination years of Kolbe; founding of Militia Immaculatae (1917). Limited campus association.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe

• Nagasaki – Japanese mission (Mugenzai no Sono) (Mission in Japan) [Public] Convent – Nagasaki, Japan (Immaculate monastery / mission association), Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan
  • Year: 1930
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Nagasaki
  • Japanese mission foundation of Kolbe’s Franciscans (Garden of the Immaculate). Public Catholic Nagasaki landscape of the mission era.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe

• National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe (Libertyville, IL) – US hub (Legacy devotion in the United States) [Public] Shrine – 1600 West Park Avenue, Libertyville, IL 60048, Libertyville, Illinois, United States
  • Year: 1980
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Chicago
  • Marytown / National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe — major US Franciscan pilgrimage campus for Kolbe devotion (legacy hub for American pilgrims).
  • Sources: https://www.marytown.com/