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Pope Benedict XVI (C) waves as he arrives for a pastoral visit to the Roman Parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe on December 12, 2010 in Rome. Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland in 1941. AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTO (Photo credit should read VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images)