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St. Maximilian Kolbe

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Religious Figure

The Resume

    (January 8, 1894-August 14, 1941)
    Died in the Auschwitz concentration camp
    Canonized in 1982
    Franciscan friar and Catholic saint

Why he might be annoying:

    His writings appear to be anti-semitic.
    He wrote that 'international Zionism' was the force behind Freemasonry and 'atheistic Communism.'
    He endorsed the bogus Protocols of the Elders of Zion as legitimate.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He sheltered as many as 2,000 Jews in his monastery.
    After an inmate at Auschwitz disappeared, the Nazis selected 10 men at random to be killed as a reprisal. Kolbe volunteered to take the place of one man who was married and had a family.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 89 Votes: 46.07% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 23 Votes: 21.74% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 23 Votes: 43.48% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 109 Votes: 50.46% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 125 Votes: 47.20% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 27.27% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 35.71% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 36 Votes: 52.78% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 92 Votes: 44.57% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 117 Votes: 45.30% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 262 Votes: 43.51% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 117 Votes: 35.04% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 175 Votes: 32.57% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 128 Votes: 48.44% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 89 Votes: 55.06% Annoying