In 1998 Edith Stein 18911942 was canonised by Pope John Paul II A German philosopher of Jewish descent Stein converted to Catholicism in 1922 and lived as nun in the Carmelite Convent of Echt in the ...
Edith Stein (1891-1942) had been born Jewish in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland). She studied philosophy in her native town before joining Göttingen University. In Freiburg, she worked with Professor ...