Contemplative Haven: Feastday of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross 
Feastday of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
"Approximately seven hundred Dutch Catholics of Jewish background, including some three hundred nuns and priests, were arrested along with Rosa and Edith. In 1950, when the official Dutch Gazette published the names of all Jews who had been deported from Holland on August 7, 1942, the following entry was found:
Number 44074: Edith Theresia Hedwig Stein, Echt
Born - October 12, 1891, Breslau
Died - August 9, 1942
There are no formal records of the Stein sisters at Auschwitz because the prisoners designated for death right from the train were never registered by camp records." (Excerpts from Edith Stein, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda)
"The burden of the cross that Christ assumed is that of corrupted human nature, with all its consequences in sin and suffering to which fallen humanity is subject. The meaning of the way of the cross is to carry this burden out of the world..." (Excerpt from St. Teresa Benedicta's Essay "Love of the Cross: Some Thoughts for the Feast of St. John of the Cross)
Edith Stein.
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.Born on the Day of Atonement.
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