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Edith Stein
Edith Stein was a German philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She was murdered in the gas chamber at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp on 9 August 1942, and is canonized as a martyr of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe.
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culture · German nun and philosopher (1891–1942) · translator · philosopher · writer · linguist · university teacher · nun · autobiographer · theologian · teacher · also Edith Stein, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Teresia Benedicta a Cruce OCD, Teresa Benedicta a Cruce, Stein
Born 12 October 1891 · Died 9 August 1942 · Q76749
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2026· 15 entries
uandes: Noticias - Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades celebró a Edith Stein, su patrona
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El Español: Edith Stein, la ejemplaridad en tiempos de oscuridad
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Legacy obituary: Edith Linda Stein Obituary (2026) - Port Huron, MI - Grace Memorial-Smith Chapel - Port Huron
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National Catholic Register: St. Edith Stein’s Answer to a World Starved of Beauty
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El Cronista: Día de Santa Edith Stein (Sor Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz): la oración para tener su guía y protección este domingo
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Primicias Rurales: Hoy celebramos a Santa Edith Stein, carmelita de origen judío, víctima del nazismo
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Angelus News: Saint of the day: Edith Stein, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
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Public attention spiked: 4,407 Wikipedia readers in one day, 11.6× the usual 382, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Día de Santa Edith Stein (Sor Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz): la oración para tener su guía y protección este domingo” (El Cronista).
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omnesmag.com: Edith Stein, the Saint Teresa of Our Time
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National Catholic Register: St. Edith Stein’s Daily Advice for Women
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Religión en Libertad: Luciana Rogowicz, conversa del judaísmo: «Edith Stein fue una de las personas que más me impactaron»
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Infobae: La vida de Edith Stein: la brillante filósofa judía que se convirtió en monja y fue asesinada en las cámaras de gas de Auschwitz
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Excélsior: Qué santo se celebra hoy 9 agosto Santa Edith Stein y su plegaria de protección
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El Correo de Pozuelo: Horóscopo del Domingo, 9 de agosto de 2026 (San Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz (Edith Stein), San Justo de Lyon y San Romano)
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2022· 1 entry
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Stein's conversion to Catholicism and the 80th anniversary of her martyrdom
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2018· 1 entry
American film director Joshua Sinclair made a movie about the life and death of Edith Stein with the title A Rose in Winter, starring Zana Marjanovic
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2014· 1 entry
The book Edith Stein and Regina Jonas: Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death Camps, by Emily Leah Silverman, was published
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2009· 1 entry
Her bust was installed at the Walhalla Memorial near Regensburg, Germany
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2008· 1 entry
The first Stolperstein (Polish: kamienie pamięci) that was ever laid in Poland was placed near Edith Stein's childhood home at 38 ul
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2007· 1 entry
Stein's life and work was dramatised in the novel Winter Under Water (Picador, London) by author James Hopkin
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2006· 1 entry
Titled Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913–1922, in which he contrasted her living of her own personal philosophy with Martin Heidegger, whose actions during the Nazi era, according to MacIntyre, suggested a "bif
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1999· 1 entry
A memorial statue by German sculptor Bert Gerresheim was dedicated in Cologne, Germany
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1995· 1 entry
Hungarian film director Márta Mészáros made a movie about the life and death of Edith Stein with the title A hetedik szoba (The Seventh Room/Chamber), starring Maia Morgenstern
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1991· 1 entry
The Italian musician Juri Camisasca released a song inspired by the life of Edith Stein, Il carmelo di Echt (The carmelite convent of Echt) on the album of the same name
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1988· 1 entry
Edith Stein was pictured on a German postage stamp with Rupert Mayer SJ in honor of their beatification
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1987· 1 entry
And canonized in 1998 by Pope John Paul II
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1942· 1 entry
Died 1942-08-09.
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1937· 1 entry
The Pope issued an encyclical written in German, Mit brennender Sorge (according to its German first words, lit
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1933· 1 entry
Official Edith Stein foundation in The Netherlands
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1932· 1 entry
Became a lecturer at the Catholic Church-affiliated Institute for Scientific Pedagogy in Münster, but antisemitic legislation passed by the Nazi government forced her to resign the post in 1933
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1921· 1 entry
That prompted her conversion and eventually the desire to seek the life of a Discalced Carmelite
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1919· 1 entry
On the street then called Michaelisstrasse 38 (today Nowowiejska 38)
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1916· 2 entries
Stein moved to the University of Freiburg in order to complete her dissertation on Empathy
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Obtained an assistantship to Edmund Husserl there
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1915· 1 entry
Took lessons to become a nursing assistant and worked in an infectious diseases hospital
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-10-12.
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