St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Taylor Kemp and Dr. Arielle Harms reflect upon the life of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, the name Edith Stein received as a religious sister. Born into a Jewish family, and falling into atheism at an early age, Edith eventually converted to Catholicism. She was killed in Auschwitz. St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was a prolific writer and philosopher and bestowed upon the Church many beautiful spiritual writings that reveal her depth of mind and love for Christ.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.
0:05.5	This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:19.9	Hello everyone, and welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Taylor Kemp, the vice president of
0:24.6	content here at the Augustine Institute. And today, Dr. Ariel Harms is with me, who is a professor
0:31.2	of theology here at the Augustin Institute Graduate School and leader of our pastoral theology program.
0:36.8	Dr. Harms, it's great to have you back.
0:38.6	Thank you.
0:39.8	Welcome back to Catholic Saints.
0:41.4	The saint we are talking about today is St. Edithstein, religious name, St.
0:47.2	St.
0:47.4	St.
0:48.1	Sister Teresa Benedicta of the cross, but probably more commonly known as Edithstein.
0:53.6	Her feast day is August 9th. Dr.
0:56.2	Harms, who is Edith Stein? So Edith Stein was born in Breslau, Germany on October 12th, 1891,
1:07.3	as the youngest of 11 children into a Jewish family.
1:12.8	Okay.
1:14.0	She was born, actually, as her family was celebrating Yom Kippur, the Jewish
1:19.4	Feast of Atonement.
1:20.8	Okay.
1:22.1	So that comes, that's important for later.
1:27.3	Yeah. In her life, because she did eventually see that
1:31.2	as um very significant okay you're meaning born during during young during yom kippur wow okay um and
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