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Edith Stein was admitted as a student to the study of religion to the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Cologne on 25 November, on the first vespers of the feast of Saint Teresa of Ávila, and received the religious habit as a novice in April 1934, taking the religious name Teresia Benedicta a Cruce (Teresia in remembrance of Teresa of Ávila ...
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Edith of Aylesbury, a Dark Ages English saint; Saint Edith Stein (1891–1942), a German Jewish convert and martyr; Other uses. St Edith Hall, Kemsing, Kent, UK;
St. Edward's Church was founded in 1915, and merged with St. Nicholas Church in Abington, Massachusetts, in 2003, with the combined parish being renamed St. Edith Stein. St. Edith Stein parish bears striking resemblance to Ascension of Our Lord Church in Montreal, Canada, which is another church designed by the firm. [14] [15] [circular reference]
Edith Stein OCD (in religion Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; 12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942) was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. Edith Stein was murdered in the gas chamber at Birkenau on 9 August 1942, and is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church ; she is also ...
In 2014, the church became an official pilgrimage site for Saint Edith Stein, a Jewish-Catholic philosopher nun from the Carmelite convent in Echt. The church has a memorial dedicated to the saint, it consists of a lectern and a triptych by artist Karin Deneer, and a display case housing the choir robe of Stein, which she wore when she was ...
In the 1920s, Edith Stein worked as a teacher at the St. Magdalena girls' school in Speyer. After the rise of the Nazis and the beginning persecution of the Jews put an end to her teaching activities, Edith joined the Discalced Carmelite order's convent in Cologne-Lindenthal in 1933, where she took the name Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce.