Nearly 20 acres in Westtown Township at the junction of 202 and East Pleasant Grove Road were purchased by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in November 1985. Less than a year later on June 16, 1986 St. Maximilian Kolbe Church was born. With a humble beginning of 630 families we have grown to over 2300 families in 20 years. In 2000 the Church campus grew to include a school, educating children from pre-school through 8th grade. We look forward to continued growth in the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ and through the intercession of our patron saint, St. Maximilian Kolbe.
 
St. Maximilian Kolbe was a Franciscan priest from Poland devoted to the Blessed Mother. He edited and published a large Catholic newspaper which spread love and devotion to Christ and His Blessed Mother.  After the Nazi occupation of Poland, Father Maximilian was imprisoned at Auschwitz death camp in 1941. There he offered his life for another prisoner and was condemned to slow death in a starvation bunker. Despite forced starvation Fr. Maximilian continued to minister to the prisoners that were with him and never lost his faith in Christ. On August 14, 1941, his captors, impatient for his death, ended his life with a fatal injection. Pope John Paul II canonized Maximilian as a "martyr of charity" in 1982.
 
St. Maximilian Kolbe Church is home to beautiful stained glass artwork including four pairs of high peaked windows which lift our eyes and spirits to heaven to experience blooming floral themes etched with inscriptions from the feasts of Our Lady.
 
The four main windows of the church reveal images of the first four American Saints, John Neumann, Katherine Drexel, Elizabeth Ann Seton and Frances Cabrini, who is pictured standing before New York Harbor, the Statue of liberty, the Empire State Building, and the World Trade Center Towers.
 
The Chapel, dedicated under the title, The Shrine of the Immaculate, holds an adaptation of a Renaissance painting of the mystery of the Incarnation where God chose to give us His Son through the Immaculate Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. The other large stained glass window expresses St. Maximilian Kolbe’s ambition to win the whole world for Christ through the Immaculate Mother of God.
 
St. Maximilian Kolbe School houses classrooms for almost 500 Catholic School students and over 700 Religious Education students. The parish hosts approximately 25 groups and sponsors a number of special events throughout the year. Nestled in the heart of Chester County, the community continues to invoke the spirit of St. Maximilian Kolbe with intense generosity and Christian love.