St. Teresa Benedicta teaches effectively what it means to be in communion with Christ and his cross because, as common parlance put it, “she walked the talk,” that is, she lived fully what she ...

St. Teresa Benedicta teaches effectively what it means to be in communion with Christ and his cross because, as common parlance put it, “she walked the talk,” that is, she lived fully what she ...

CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 06:00 am. Aug. 9 is the feast day of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein. A convert from Judaism at the age of 30, she later entered the Carmelite ...

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz on August 9, 1942. Blessed John Paul II canonized her in 1998, and proclaimed her a co-patroness of Europe the next year.

Today is August 9, 2017. Seventy-five years ago today, a Catholic nun named Teresa Benedicta of the Cross — formerly Edith Stein, the youngest of a large Jewish family in Poland — was put to ...

St. Teresa of Jesus, also known as St. Teresa of Ávila, reformed the Carmelites in the 1500s, going on to found the Discalced Carmelites, ... and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, ...

On this day the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a Discalced Carmelite. She and her sister, Rosa Stein, were among those sent to the gas chamber at ...

The feast day of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, or Edith Stein, was Aug. 9. She was born into a Jewish family, but became an atheist in her youth.

December 4, 2010. Presenter: John Sullivan, O.C.D., regional superior, Washington Province of the Discalced Carmelite friars, and Carmelite educator and editor This lecture reviews the life and ...

But Edith Stein, now St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, did not see this as severing either her relationship to God or to her people. She had lived for both, and she would die for both.

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 ...