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August 14

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  1. 1941 CEChristian · died

    Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan friar, died at Auschwitz after volunteering to take the place of a condemned fellow prisoner.

  2. 1982 CEBuddhist · died

    Mahāsi Sayādaw, the Burmese monk whose method of insight (vipassanā) meditation spread widely across Asia and the West, died in Yangon.

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