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Date: 1934-04-15 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Clothing ceremony as Teresa, Benedicta a Cruce. Edith Stein entered the Carmelite monastery of Cologne on October 14, 1933. She had intended to join the Carmelites upon conversion but was persuaded to wait in order to not create a greater separation with her mother and to continue her writing and teaching vocation. The wedding dress was later reworked as a vestment, worn by John Paul II at her beatification. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1913/1914 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: She attended the University of Gottingen, concentrating on Philosophy, German studies, and History. There she meets Adolph Reinach (1883- 1917), a professor who also inspired her thinking on phenomenology. He died in Flanders during the War. Due to the war, she volunteered as a nurse at a typhoid hospital in Moravian Weisskirkchen. She worked there and later at the Univesity of Freiberg with Edmund Husserl, famous for his phenomenological method. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1940-1942 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Edith Stein transfers to the Carmelite monastery in Echt following increasing anti-Jewish activities in Germany after Kristallnacht. Edith asked permission of the Echt prioress to make three spiritual acts of self-oblation: one on behalf of the Jewish people, one for peace in the world, and one for the sanctification of the Carmelite order. Her sister Rosa joins her there. Both try to obtain visas to Switzerland. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1923-1931 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Edith Stein takes a position teaching German and literature at girl's high school and teacher's training institute of Dominican nuns at St. Magdalena in Speyer from 1923 to 1931. Here she stands in the garden.with students who boarded at the convent. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1998-11-10 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Medal (6 cm) to commemorate the Canonization ceremeny conducted by Pope John Paul II on October 11, 1998 in Vatican City. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Creator: Holy See Date: 1987-05-01 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Bronze medal (8 cm) to commemorate the Beatification ceremony conducted by Pope John Paul II for Edith Stein, Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce, O.C.D, held in Cologne, Germany, May 1, 1987. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Left to right, front row, Edith, Lilli Plateau (holds Erika Tworoger, daughter of Frieda), Rosa Stein; middle row, Ros Guttmann, Paul Berg, Erna Stein, Hede Guttmann, Elfiede Stein Tworoger; back row, Frau Platau, Frau Dorothea Biberstein, Frau Auguste Stein. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Gravestone of Edith Stein's father, Siegfried Stein (1843-1893). He died sudenly while on a business trip, Frauenwaldau/Goschutz, when Edith was 18 months old. He ran a lumber business, which was subsequently run very successfully by his wife Auguste. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1905 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Sisters Edith and Erna with nephew Gerhard, son of brother Paul, in the family garden. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1930s Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Edith Stein's mother, Auguste Stein, nee Courant, 1849-1936. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Gravestone of the mother of Edith Stein, Auguste Stein (1849-1936) in Breslau, Germany. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1900 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Sisters Erna and Edith. Erna Biberstein (1890-1978), like her sister Edith, went on to higher education in Breslau, becoming a gynecologist. Her husband, Hans Biberstein (1898-1965), a dermatologist, was able to bring his family to New York in 1938. Their children Susanne and Ernest ultimately both moved to California. Dr. Biberstein was contacted from time to time in the Sixties regarding her sister and the efforts for beatification. Her role was to make sure that the facts regarding her family and her sister were correct. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1936 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Edith Stein's mother, Auguste Stein, nee Courant, 1849-1936. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1930/1940 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Edith Stein's mother, Auguste Stein, nee Courant, 1849-1936, and aunt, Selma Horowitz, nee Courant. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1893 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: From left, Arno, Rosa, Else, Auguste, Siegfried (image inserted), Elfriede, Edith, Paul and Erna. Parents: Siegfried Stein (1843-1893) and Auguste nee Courant Stein (1849-1936). Died in the Holocaust: Edith (1891-1942), Elfriede (1881-1942), Paul (1872-1943) and Rosa (1883-1942). Escaped Germany to the Americas: Arno (1879-1948), Else (1876-1956) and Erna (1890-1978). Edith was born on Yom Kippur, October 12, 1891, the youngest of eleven children (4 died in childhood). “Let me recall here that of the seven siblings in that family, four lost their lives in the Shoah, or Holocaust. The oldest brother Paul, together with his wife Gertrude, Frieda, Rosa and Edith. Also, a niece, Eva Stein, daughter of Arno, was killed. Arno and most of his family emigrated to America as did Erna with her family. Else, the oldest sister, and family, followed her son to Columbia, South America.” (Susanne Batzdorff correspondence to Rosa Maria Agnus Adelheid) View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union