We are the Franciscans of Mary Immaculate (FMI) located in the Diocese of Fargo, North Dakota. We strive to promote and engender devotion to our Lord Jesus through devotion and total consecration to Mary Immaculate, His Mother, through the writings and Mariology of St. Maximilian Kolbe, OFM Conv., priest and martyr of Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941. St. Maximilian volunteered to die in the place of a prisoner who had a wife and children.