St. Maximilian Kolbe was baptised Rajmund Kolbe, and was given the religious name Maximilian Maria when he joined the Conventual Franciscan order of friars (1910). He was a missionary in Japan from 1930-1936, then returned to Poland. He was arrested by the Nazis in 1941 for hiding Jews and sent to Auschwitz. When a fellow prisoner was selected to die, along with 9 others, as punishment for the escape of three men from the prison, St. Maximilian offered his life in exchange. Most of the 10 men died of starvation and dehydration; St. Maximilian and the remaining men were injected with carbolic acid and died a painful death.