9 August 1942 | Edith Stein, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Discalced Carmelite nun OCD, patron of Europe, was murdered in a gas chamber of the German Nazi Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.
Edith Stein was born on 12 October 1891,. She was a German Jew from Wrocław, doctor of philosophy specialising in phenomenology. Converted to Christianity in 1922, she joined the Carmelite convent in Cologne in 1933.
With the attacks on the Jews intensifying in Germany, Sister Theresa Benedicta was moved to the Carmelite convent in Echt in the Netherlands. There she studied the works of St John of the Cross. In 1942, after protests of Roman Catholic Church against the persecution of the Jewish citizens of the Netherlands, the German occupying powers ordered detaining Catholic clergy of Jewish origin. Edith Stein was arrested on 2 August 1942 and taken to Amersdoort and later to Westerbork.
ゆるふわカトリック信者。夜の非正規労働者。 うつ病。中枢性副腎不全。コロナ脳上等。 タイポップス愛聴家。