On August 9, 1942 Edith Stein died at Auschwitz. Born in 1891 to a Jewish family, she converted to Catholicism, entering the Carmelite Convent in Cologne under the name of Sister Theresa Benedicta of the Cross. John Paul II proclaimed her blessed on May 1, 1987, Saint on October 11, 1998. He proclaimed her ...
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