Renowned and award-winning American director Martin Scorsese is currently completing the production of the feature-documentary series ‘Saints’, in which he will also film the story of a Polish martyr among four selected saints of the Catholic Church St. Maximilian Kolbe.

“For most of my life, I have lived the stories of the saints, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds and circumstances in which they lived, the choices they faced, the examples they set,” says the series director Martin Scorsese. 

The series will initially be broadcast only in the US on Fox Nation TV. Its first four episodes are planned to be premiered in two parts, weekly from November to December. The final part is planned to be aired in May 2025 and conclude over the Easter period.

“These are the stories of four very different men and women, each living in very different periods of history and struggling to follow the path of love revealed to them and us through the words of Jesus in the Gospels. I am very excited to have this project underway and to be working with so many trusted and talented collaborators,” Scorsese said. 

The series will tell the stories of St. Joan of Arc, St. John the Baptist, St. Sebastian and St. Father Maximilian Kolbe who volunteered to sacrifice his life for another prison mate in the Auschwitz German death camp. 

Martin Scorsese is known for his admiration for religious themes and dilemmas. One of the greatest examples of his inspirations was his 2016 movie “Silence” told the story of Catholic monks in 17th-century Japan who were subjected to torture and persecution for refusing to renounce their faith.

Saint Father Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish monk and Catholic evangelist. He was one of the first Polish clergymen to establish his Catholic radio station and a newspaper that was very popular in pre-war Poland. 

For being an important member of the Polish clergy he was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. During a roll call for the prisoners, he was a witness of a death chamber selection and decided to volunteer and give his life to another prisoner, Franciszek Gajowniczek, who asked for mercy for him and his kids. 

Father Kolbe was named a Catholic saint by Pope John Paul 2 because of his martyrdom.

Source: WszystkocoNajważniejsze

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Tomasz Modrzejewski