Remembering St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Jewish convert and martyr

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. / Credit: Public domain Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 9, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Aug. 9 the Catholic Church remembers St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein. St. Teresa converted from Judaism to Catholicism in the course of her work as a philosopher and later entered the Carmelite order. She died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in 1942. Stein was born on Oct. 12, 1891 — a…