 In January 1922 Kolbe founded the monthly periodical "Rycerz Niepokalanej" ("Knight of the Immaculata"), a devotional publication based on French "Le Messager du Coeur de Jesus" ("Messenger of the Heart of Jesus").From 1922 to 1926 he operated a religious publishing press in Grodno.As his activities grew in scope, in 1927 he founded a new Conventual Franciscan monastery at Niepokalanów near Warsaw.