The Feast of St. Edith Stein

Today is the feast of Edith Stein -- St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.  A summary of her life is available here.  She was a remarkable woman -- a philosopher and student of Edmund Husserl who served as a nurse during the Great War.  Although she no longer practiced the Jewish faith in which she was raised, she converted to Catholicism in 1921 after reading a biography of St. Theresa of Avila.  She eventually became a Carmelite nun and died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz in 1942.  As someone who thirsted for the truth, who pursued her scholarship as a service to the Lord, whose life and death makes vivid the price of discipleship, Edith Stein should be an inspiration to all the participants and readers at MOJ.