Edith Stein The Twelve Great Feasts After surviving a life threatening

After surviving a life threatening illness

is recorded in the Synoptic Gospels and commemorated annually on August 6th

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Edith Stein The Twelve Great Feasts After surviving a life threateningEdith Stein (1891 1942)Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) was born on Yom Kippur in 1891 to a devout Jewish family in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocaw, Poland). Her parents were hard working, industrious and patriotic Germans who ran a lumber business that thrived until her father died suddenly when Edith was two. Her mother, Auguste, then ran the family and the business and still found time to pray and worship in the synagogue with a fervent