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This maxMary effort was brought about when we begin to recognize how much  our Blessed Mother's own MI movement has been excluded from the modern church. Growing up at a Catholic Church that was once was Conventual Franciscan, the only thing close to the MI we would ever experience was a pamphlet on Marytown the National Shrine of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe. Before the Franciscan would decide to leave the parish that help began, a picture of St. Maximilian Kolbe would make it on a wall before you enter the church...the significan story of this image was that it was used and presented to Pope John Paul II during the canonization of Fr. Kolbe and yet was now hidden away in the closet. The priest who carried the picture