Edith Stein

✶October 12, 1891

†August 9, 1942

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About their life

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.

German nun and philosopher (1891–1942)

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Biography from the article Edith Stein on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.