Feast Day · August 9
Edith Stein
Patron ofEurope, Converts, Loss of Parents, World Youth Day
SituationsConversion, Jewish-Christian Relations, Persecution
ProfessionsAcademics, Philosophers
Life
Saint Edith Stein, also known as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Carmelite nun. Born in 1891, she was a brilliant student of Edmund Husserl. After her conversion in 1922, she entered the Carmelite Order. She was arrested by the Nazis and killed at Auschwitz in 1942. She is a co-patron of Europe.
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