A brilliant philosopher who found the ultimate truth in Christ, St. Edith Stein, once an atheist and intellectual, underwent a radical conversion that led her to embrace the Cross. From studying philosophy to becoming a Carmelite nun, her journey ended in martyrdom at Auschwitz—but her legacy of faith and wisdom lives on.

Teresa Benedicta of the Cross is one of the six patron saints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia, Cyril and Methodius, Bridget of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena.

Today there are many schools named in tribute to her, for example in her hometown, Lubliniec, Poland ^[27] Darmstadt, Germany,^[28] Hengelo, Netherlands,^[29] and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.^[30] Also named for her are a women’s dormitory at the University of Tübingen^[31] and a classroom building at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Lubliniec in Poland hosts the Edith Stein Museum (Muzeum Pro Memoria Edith Stein) localised on the first floor of the Courant family house (Edith Stein’s grandparents’ family home). Wrocław hosts a museum called Edith Stein House localised in the house Edith’s mother bought for the family in 1919 on the street then called Michaelisstrasse 38 (today Nowowiejska 38). —Wikipedia