{"id":79526,"date":"2025-03-19T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/polonia-giornate-kolbiane-con-la-proiezione-dellinnovativo-film-kolbe-vr\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:24:48","slug":"polonia-giornate-kolbiane-con-la-proiezione-dellinnovativo-film-kolbe-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/polonia-giornate-kolbiane-con-la-proiezione-dellinnovativo-film-kolbe-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland: Innovative Kolbe VR Film Premieres for Kolbe Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Saturday, March 15, 2025, a short film about St. Maximilian Kolbe premiered at the friary in Harm\u0119\u017ce, near Auschwitz, Poland. The film was made using the new VR (virtual reality) technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this technology, viewers of <em>Kolbe VR<\/em> found themselves transported to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp where they experienced the life and martyrdom of St. Maximilian in an almost tangible way. The film let them feel as though they were participants in those events, not just observers.<br \/>\nThe screening of Kolbe VR was followed by a meeting with the Director and creator of this unusual production, Tomasz DOBOSZ. During his conversation with Friar Marek KOWALCZE, he offered the audience a glimpse behind the scenes of his creation.<br \/>\nThe screening of the film was one of many events on the very full schedule of the 23rd annual Kolbe Days program. The event was organized by the Conventual Franciscan friars and the Father Kolbe Missionary Sisters of the Immaculata.<br \/>\nThis year\u2019s Kolbe Days event was focused on the theme of hope, as presented in the teachings of Pope Francis, in Scripture and in the spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Maximilian M. Kolbe.<br \/>\nThe event speakers included Friar Kazimierz MALINOWSKI, Director of the St. Maximilian Center [Harm\u0119\u017ce]; Friar Micha\u0142 BARANOWSKI, a lecturer at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszy\u0144ski University [Warsaw, Poland]; Friar Zdzis\u0142aw KIJAS, the Postulator General of the Order and a lecturer at the Pontifical John Paul II University [Cracow, Poland]; and Friar Piotr BIELENIN, Director of the Institute of Franciscan Studies [Cracow].<br \/>\nThe homilies during the Masses on Friday, Saturday and Sunday were offered by: Friar Tom\u00e1\u0161 LES\u0147\u00c1K, the Assistant General for the <em>Foederatio Europae Mediae et Orientalis<\/em> (FEMO); Friar Piotr SZCZEPA\u0143SKI, the Guardian of the friary in Niepokalan\u00f3w, Poland; and Friar Mariusz KOZIO\u0141, the Minister Provincial of the Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Jan M. SZEWEK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, March 15, 2025, a short film about St. Maximilian Kolbe premiered at the friary in Harm\u0119\u017ce, near Auschwitz, Poland. The film was made using the new VR (virtual reality) technology. Thanks to this technology, viewers of Kolbe VR found themselves transported to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp where they experienced the life and martyrdom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,115,148],"tags":[2492,2622,1773],"class_list":["post-79526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-femo-en","category-news","tag-harmeze-en","tag-kolbean-days","tag-poland-cracow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}