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The Life of Edith Stein
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BOOK WORLD
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6 / 1987 |
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Phyllis Zagano
Phyllis Zagano is a contributing editor of Crisis. She has
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LIFE IN A JEWISH FAMILY 1891-1916: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Edith Stein
Washington, D.C.: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1986
548 pp., $10.95
EDITH STEIN: A BIOGRAPHY
Waltraud Herbstrith, translated by Bernard Bonowitz
San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985
127 pp., $5.95
Born on Yom Kippur, October 12, 1891, Edith Stein died a Carmelite nun at Auschwitz on August 9, 1842.
On May 1, 1987, Pope John Paul II declared her "blessed" in beatification ceremonies at Cologne, Germany. The next degree of recognition is sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. Edith Stein has been "venerable", the initial step in the canonization process, for an uncharacteristically short time - since January 23, 1987.
Unquestionably a remarkable woman in her life and death, Edith Stein crystallized the questions of who we are in relation to ourselves, each other, and God so well that her greatness is universally accepted. The youngest of eleven in a Jewish family, she progressed through the study of philosophy to become a Christian. On the advice of her confessor, she delayed her entrance into a religious order until she was forty-two and then persevered with her choice, living under one of the most difficult religious rules for women. She was a modern Jew who may become a Catholic
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