Edith Stein

Author unknown (circa 1938-1939) (link)

Feast Day August 9

Patron of Europe, Converts, Loss of Parents, World Youth Day

Situations Conversion, Jewish-Christian Relations, Persecution

Professions Academics, Philosophers

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.