TM130SMK special event station will be active from Mortroux, France, commemorating 130th Anniversary of the Birthday of the Saint Maximilien Kolbe, SP3RN.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via F4IIQ.
Ads for direct QSL:
Jean-Francois INJALRAC, 8 Le Cros, MORTROUX, 23220, France.
Information from their QRZ page:
Saint-Maximilian Kolbe is the patron saint of hams-radio.
Maximilian Kolbe (Rajmund Kolbe in civil status), born January 8, 1894 in Zduńska Wola and died August 14, 1941 in Auschwitz, was a Polish conventual Franciscan friar, priest, founder of the association of faithful "Mission of the Immaculate" and of the Niepokalanów monastery.
A brilliant student, he was sent to Rome for preparatory studies for the priesthood.
In 1915 he obtained a doctorate in philosophy.
On April 28, 1918 he was ordained a priest.
In 1919 he also obtained a doctorate in theology.
In 1927 Maximilian Kolbe founded the monastery of “the city of the Immaculate” near Warsaw. There, more than 800 brothers are active in announcing the gospel. He set up a publishing house there and did not hesitate to obtain the most modern and expensive equipment to disseminate the good news on a large scale.
In 1938 in addition to his printing activities, he built a shortwave radio station and used the call sign SP3RN.
At the start of World War II, he was persecuted and then arrested by the Nazis. One day at the camp, there was an escapee. As punishment, the Nazis chose 10 prisoners to die of hunger and thirst. One of them, Franciszek Gajowniczek, a father, begged the Nazis not to condemn him. So Maximilien Kolbe made the supreme sacrifice by offering his life in exchange for this man. The Nazis agreed. Maximilien Kolbe supported his fellow prisoners with hymns and prayers. After 10 days, there were still four survivors. After three weeks without food and water, Father Kolbe was still alive. He was executed on August 14, 1941 with an injection of a lethal dose of phenol into the arm. His body was burned in a crematorium on August 15, (Assumption Day). 41 years later, Having survived captivity, Franciszek Gajowniczek will attend the canonization of his savior by John Paul II in 1982.
On October 17, 1971 Maximilian Kolbe was beatified as a “confessor” by Paul VI.
On October 10, 1982, despite the unfavorable opinion of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, he was canonized as a martyr by Pope John Paul II "by virtue of his apostolic authority". He is the only one to have been honored first as a confessor, then as a martyr. Two miracles attributed to the intercession of Maximilien Kolbe allowed his canonization: the healing of Angela Testoni, suffering from tuberculosis, in July 1948, and that of Francis Ranier, suffering from arterial calcification, in August 1950. The Pope, Jean Paul II, made it a model for today's society and the new evangelization and notably retained from Maximilien Kolbe the importance of the consecration to the Trinity by the Virgin Mary and the announcement of the Gospel through the media.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via F4IIQ.
Ads for direct QSL:
Jean-Francois INJALRAC, 8 Le Cros, MORTROUX, 23220, France.
Information from their QRZ page:
Saint-Maximilian Kolbe is the patron saint of hams-radio.
Maximilian Kolbe (Rajmund Kolbe in civil status), born January 8, 1894 in Zduńska Wola and died August 14, 1941 in Auschwitz, was a Polish conventual Franciscan friar, priest, founder of the association of faithful "Mission of the Immaculate" and of the Niepokalanów monastery.
A brilliant student, he was sent to Rome for preparatory studies for the priesthood.
In 1915 he obtained a doctorate in philosophy.
On April 28, 1918 he was ordained a priest.
In 1919 he also obtained a doctorate in theology.
In 1927 Maximilian Kolbe founded the monastery of “the city of the Immaculate” near Warsaw. There, more than 800 brothers are active in announcing the gospel. He set up a publishing house there and did not hesitate to obtain the most modern and expensive equipment to disseminate the good news on a large scale.
In 1938 in addition to his printing activities, he built a shortwave radio station and used the call sign SP3RN.
At the start of World War II, he was persecuted and then arrested by the Nazis. One day at the camp, there was an escapee. As punishment, the Nazis chose 10 prisoners to die of hunger and thirst. One of them, Franciszek Gajowniczek, a father, begged the Nazis not to condemn him. So Maximilien Kolbe made the supreme sacrifice by offering his life in exchange for this man. The Nazis agreed. Maximilien Kolbe supported his fellow prisoners with hymns and prayers. After 10 days, there were still four survivors. After three weeks without food and water, Father Kolbe was still alive. He was executed on August 14, 1941 with an injection of a lethal dose of phenol into the arm. His body was burned in a crematorium on August 15, (Assumption Day). 41 years later, Having survived captivity, Franciszek Gajowniczek will attend the canonization of his savior by John Paul II in 1982.
On October 17, 1971 Maximilian Kolbe was beatified as a “confessor” by Paul VI.
On October 10, 1982, despite the unfavorable opinion of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, he was canonized as a martyr by Pope John Paul II "by virtue of his apostolic authority". He is the only one to have been honored first as a confessor, then as a martyr. Two miracles attributed to the intercession of Maximilien Kolbe allowed his canonization: the healing of Angela Testoni, suffering from tuberculosis, in July 1948, and that of Francis Ranier, suffering from arterial calcification, in August 1950. The Pope, Jean Paul II, made it a model for today's society and the new evangelization and notably retained from Maximilien Kolbe the importance of the consecration to the Trinity by the Virgin Mary and the announcement of the Gospel through the media.