Well, sort of. Learned about Fr Maximilian Kolbe from Jerry G. Taylor's (KDØBIK
) Practical Amateur Radio Podcast v54.5.
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Who was Saint Kolbe?
"Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFM Conv ... was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II." Wikipedia
However, although Fr Kolbe held an amateur radio license (SP3RN ), and is regarded as the patron saint of amateur radio, I couldn't find anything official confirming it. Then again, I'm not Catholic, so maybe patronship (if that's what you call it) is not a formal part of beatification.
Kinda cool if it is, but probably just frilly details folks add for laminated bookmarks and such, if the Catholics are anything like the Baptists, and down deep, I think we are a lot alike, in good ways and bad.
Started: 2012-04-13
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