Edith Stein

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title: Edith Stein
text: Edith Stein, OCD was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. Edith Stein was murdered in the gas chamber at Birkenau on 9 August 1942, and is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe. She was born into an observant Jewish family, but had become an agnostic by her teenage years. Moved by the tragedies of World War I, in 1915, she took lessons to become a nursing assistant and worke
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description: Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Stein
date created: 2002-03-09T12:12:41Z
date modified: 2024-09-09T03:37:10Z
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