- Name
- Edith (Femenino)
- Secular name
- Edith Stein
- Born
- October 12th 1891 en Breslaw, in current Germany
- Dead
- August 9th 1942 in Auschwitz, in current Poland
- Process
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- Beatifiedel May 1st 1987 por Blessed John Paul II
- Canonized on 1998 by Blessed John Paul II
- Celebration
- August 9th
- Religious
- de la Orden del Carmelo
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the cross (Edith) Stein, Lady of the order of the Discalced Carmelites and martyr, who, born and educated in the Jewish religion, after having taught philosophy for several years among great difficulties, received by baptism the new life in Christ and developed it under the veil of religious, until in time of a hostile regime to the dignity of man and the faith She was banished and jailed, dying in the gas Chamber of the concentration camp of Oswiecim/Auschwitz, near Krakow in Poland. Roman martyrology