Hailing St. Edith Stein on 70th anniversary

(Vatican Radio) On August 9th, the Church celebrates the life and virtue of Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross who died at the Auschwitz concentration camp on this day in 1942. Born to Jewish parents in 1891, Edith Stein entered the Carmelite convent in Cologne, Germany, taking the name Sr. Teresia Benedicta of the Cross. Blessed Pope John Paul II proclaimed the German Catholic nun and philosopher a saint on October 11, 1998. Together with Saint Brigit of Sweden and Saint Catherine of Siena, she is Patron saint of Europe.

Discalced Carmelite Father Ulrich Dobhan shares with Veronica Scarisbrick some insight into the life of Edith Stein…
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