Witness of the Saints By taylorparnagian 1917 Mexico outlaws Catholicism 1926 Servant of God Dorothy Day converts to Catholicism. 1927 Bl. Miguel Pro is killed by the Mexican government. 1933 Day founds the Catholic Worker newspaper 1941 St. Maximilian Kolbe is killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz. 1959 Pope St. John XXlll calls the Church council that will become known as Vatican ll. 1981 Pope St. John Paul ll survives an assassination attempt ordered by KGB (the Soviet intelligence agency).