Edith Stein Catholic Heroes Obediently

Obediently

Too young to fight

is a masterpiece of balance between dynamic action and contemplative meditation

Settling in Canada

Pope Saint John is known in Italy as “Il Papa Buono

Edith Stein Catholic Heroes ObedientlyEdith Stein (1891 1942)Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) was born on Yom Kippur in 1891 to a devout Jewish family in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocaw, Poland). Her parents were hard working, industrious and patriotic Germans who ran a lumber business that thrived until her father died suddenly when Edith was two. Her mother, Auguste, then ran the family and the business and still found time to pray and worship in the synagogue with a fervent