Story of a Jewish woman who became a Catholic when she was 30, was killed by the Nazis--and now is is declared by the Catholic Church to be Co-Patrone

[mdgspencer]

see Feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), OCD - The Catholic Sun

In 1921, while visiting friends, Edith spent an entire night reading the autobiography of the 16th century Carmelite nun St. Teresa of Ávila.

“When I had finished the book,” she later recalled, “I said to myself: This is the truth.”
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“I ask the Lord to accept my life and my death,” she wrote in 1939, “so that the Lord will be accepted by His people and that His kingdom may come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world.”

 

[jeannetherese]

Saint Edith Stein, pray for us.
Amen.

 

[Maximian]

St Teresa was herself from a family of Jews who had converted

 

[jeannetherese]

She and her sister converted and became Carmelites. Her mother did not convert. I am unsure about other family members.
Like many of the converts we meet on CAF, she read her way into the Church.

 

[Maximian]

Yes, I did myself.

 

[jeannetherese]

Often, I read of converts who came to the Church via the writings of the early Church fathers. Saint Edith Stein differs from this in that her path involved the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila. I need to add that to my reading list.

 

[Maximian]

My daughter was always a believing Catholic but reading Teresa of Avila massively deepened her faith. She’s now 28 and one of the most Catholic people I know.