Edith Stein the first Jewish born Saint , was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1998
and is one of the Patron Saints of Europe. One of the people who knows her best
is Carmelite Father Ulrich Dobhan as he supervised the German edition of her writings.
In this interview with Veronica Scarisbrick he shares with us some of the insights
he gained from reading her works. Best known for her dramatic experience in the
Auschwitz concentration camp, in this interview we discover she was an outstanding
philosopher, assistant to Husserl. We also learn of her exceptional conversion
to Catholicism inspired by another earlier Carmelite Saint,Teresa of Avila