Born in Breslau (now Warsaw, Poland) to a Jewish family in 1891. She abandoned Judaism in her early teens. After reading the autobiography of Teresa of Avila, she became a Catholic and later became a Carmelite. She was brilliant and earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1916. She taught in the university until 1922. She became a lecturer in Munich, but under pressure from the Nazis, she had to leave. In 1938, after living in the Cologne Carmel, she moved to a Carmelite monastery in Echt, Netherlands. In 1940 the Nazis occupied the Netherlands. Because the Dutch bishops denounced the Nazis, all Dutch Jews who had become Christians were arrested. Teresa Benedicta and her sister Rosa , who also became Catholic, died in the gas chamber in Auschwitz on August 9, 1942. Blessed John Paul II beatified her in 1987 and canonized her twelve years later.
FEAST DAY: August 9
EDITH STEIN: THE 7TH CHAMBER DVD
Responsorial Psalm
You forsake not those who seek you, O Lord.
QUIZ
Yesterday’s Answer-
False
Today’s Answer-
What is it called when the laity share the faith through their witness of life and the word?
(a) prophecy (b) evangelization (c) proselytism
