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BEATITUDE
BLESSED ARE THEY WHO ARE PERSECUTED FOR THE
SAKE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR THEIRS IS THE
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
LIVED IN THE 8TH BEATITUDE
ST. JAMES OF
ZEBEEDEE
• He lived in Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee.
• He was one of the first Apostles of Jesus.
• He proclaimed and spread the gospels after
Jesus’s resurrection.
• He was the first apostle to be martyred for his
faith to Jesus and God.
• He was beheaded - order by King Herod
Agrippa I of Judaea in a general persecution of
the early church.
MAXIMILIAN
KOLBE
• He was born in the Russian Empire.
• He
was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Fran
ciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a
man
.
• Maximilian knew and loved the truth of the
Gospels, he was found ministering to others and
singing praises to God even as he was being
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