by Michael Gorre
The devil and his agents were not happy with Saint Maximilian Kolbe and his highly influential magazine, The Immaculata.
The influence and prestige of his publications was so great that they rivaled and surpassed secular publications. Anti-clerical liberals controlled much of the secular press, including the newsstands and the paper factories.
With the exception of the first few issues, Father Maximilian wisely printed his publications using his own presses, even though they were very old. That way, the anti-clericals could not shut him down easily.
So they arranged for no supplier to sell paper to him. With no
paper, there could be no publications.
“No paper in Poland? No problem,” was Father Maximilian’s reaction. By this time, his monastery,* which he began to call the “City of the Immaculata,” had a railway running right up to
its print shop, the base of the Knights of the Immaculata.
While the anti-clericals were rubbing their hands with glee, Father
Maximilian secretly rolled in a shipment of fresh paper from Russia.
Imagine their shock as they saw the Knight of the Immaculata magazine shining in the newsstands!
The anti-clericals then announced a boycott of the Knight of the Immaculata from the official newsstands. Father Maximilian,
the unstoppable crusader, decided to set up his own newsstands and sold more magazines than ever before.
Realizing they could not compete, the anti-clericals let his publications back on the official newsstands.
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