Santa Teresa Benedita da Cruz (Edith Stein)

[ad_1] St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) Feast date: Aug 09 On August 9 the Catholic Church remembers St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as St. 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.Edith Stein was born on October 12, 1891 – a date that coincided with her family’s…