On Aug. 9 the Catholic Church celebrates the life of philosopher, writer, and religious sister St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, more commonly known as Edith Stein. Born in Breslau, Prussia (now ...

St. Edith Stein (1891-1942), also known by her religious ... feminine vocation and how to form students for heaven through a Catholic education. In the sixth essay of this volume, St. Edith ...

After learning more about St. Edith Stein, I believe that I didn’t choose her as the patron of the Harvard Catholic Women’s Group, but she chose the group herself. As a potential future doctor ...

Edith Stein was born into an Orthodox ... In 1922 at the age of 30, Stein was baptized into the Catholic Church. Despite her Catholic faith, she never lost sight of her own Jewishness, nor of ...

I put the term ' martyrdom' in quotations, since Edith Stein was murdered by the Nazis for being Jewish and only, secondarily, ( and out of spite!) for being Catholic ... at St. Peter's church ...

Edith Stein is seen on a tapestry hanging on the façade at St. Peter’s Basilica, currently undergoing restoration, at the Vatican, on October 10, 1998. Cardinal Michael Czerny marked the 80th ...

a Jewish-born Catholic saint who died in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, the Algemeiner reported. Born Edith Stein on Yom Kippur 1891, the future saint grew up in a Jewish family, as detailed on ...