Saint Edith Stein: The Jewish Philosopher Who Found Christ and Died a Martyr
Teresa Benedict of the Cross Edith Stein
Nun, Discalced Carmelite, Martyr
Co-patron of Europe
(1891-1942)
"We bow down before the testimony of the life and death of Edith Stein, an outstanding daughter of Israel and at the same time a daughter of the Carmelite Order, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a personality who united within her rich life a dramatic synthesis of our century. It was the synthesis of a history full of deep wounds that are still hurting ... and also the synthesis of the full truth about man. All this came together in a single heart that remained restless and unfulfilled until it finally found rest in God" (Pope John Paul II during Edith Stein's beatification in Cologne on 1 May 1987).
Who is she?
Edith Stein was born in Breslau on the 12th of October 1891, the youngest of 11, as her family was celebrating Yom Kippur, the most important Jewish feast, the Feast of Atonement. "More than …More