RYCERZ NIEPOKALANEJ (IL CAVALIERE DELL'IMMACOLATA). — Periodical founded in Kraków in 1922 by Fr. Massimiliano Kolbe O.F.M. Conv.,
murdered by the Germans in 1941 in the concentration camp of Oświecim (Auschwitz).
Il C. dell'I. had been conceived by its founder as an illustrated monthly magazine for spreading devotion to and the worship of the Immaculate. It was published in Polish at Niepokalanow (= City of the Immaculate, 42 km from Warsaw) from 1927 to 1939; it was suspended by the German authorities during the war. During a missionary journey to Japan, Fr. Kolbe also established an edition of Il C. dell'I. in Japanese at Nagasaki in 1930, under the title Mungenzai Ne Sono.
BIBL.: A. Ricciardi, L'Eroe di Oświecim, Rome 1947, with bibliography. Witold Wehr