Patronage
Patron Saint of Drug Addicts
The Catholic Church venerates St. Maximilian Kolbe as the patron saint of drug addicts. Patron saints are heavenly intercessors — believers entrust a place, profession, or struggle to a saint whose own life touched it, and ask for their prayers before God.
St. Maximilian Kolbe
Feast: August 14“Knight of the Immaculata”
A Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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