reliquary Teresa Benedict of the Cross ( e.stein)

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Religious and Church art on Ebay;Fine Religious antique, coming from Europe; Religious and churchart Eindhoven, The Netherlands eBay Policy prohibits the sale of human remains and requires a disclosure of what the Relics are: These Relics are a piece of hair of the Saint and/or a piece of cloth worn by the Saint, both of which are allowed by eBay Policy. They are sacred and devotional Relics of the Church. If you have any further specific questions regarding these Holy Relics, please email me. PLEASE NOTE; we wil ship only with Fedex Economy. You could track your parcel online. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross This is a medaillon with relic from Teresa Benedicta of The Cross ( Edith Stein). 0.8 inch diameter. Shipping with Fedex economy is 25$. I want to thank the writer of WIKIPEDIA. Edith Stein From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross Martyr Born October 12, 1891 (1891-10-12 ), Breslau , German Empire Died August 9, 1942 (aged 50), Auschwitz concentration camp , Nazi -occupied Poland Venerated in Roman Catholicism Beatified May 1, 1987, Cologne , Germany by Pope John Paul II Canonized October 11, 1998 by Pope John Paul II Feast August 9 Attributes Yellow Star of David , flames, a book Patronage Europe; loss of parents; martyrs; World Youth Day [1 ] Saint Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German -Jewish philosopher , nun , martyr , and saint of the Roman Catholic Church . Born into an observant Jewish family but an atheist by her teenage years, she converted to Christianity in 1922, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order as a postulant in 1934. Although she moved from Germany to the Netherlands to avoid Nazi persecution, in 1942 she was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where she died in the gas chamber .Edith Stein was canonized as Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross (her monastic name ) by Pope John Paul II in 1998; however, she is often referred to as "Saint Edith Stein". Contents [ hide ] 1 Life 2 Legacy 3 Controversy 4 Writings 5 References 6 Intellectual and Spiritual Contemporaries of Note 7 See also 8 External links Life Stein was born in Breslau (Wroclaw) , in the German Empire 's Prussian Province of Silesia , into an observant Jewish family. Born on October 12, 1891, Edith was a very gifted child who enjoyed learning. She greatly admired her mother's strong faith; however, by her teenage years Stein had become an atheist.In 1916, she received a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Göttingen, with a dissertation under Edmund Husserl , "Zum Problem der Einfühlung" (On The Problem of Empathy). She then became a member of the faculty in Freiburg . In the previous year she had worked with Martin Heidegger in editing Husserl's papers for publication, Heidegger being appointed similarly as a teaching assistant to Husserl at Freiburg in October 1916. But she was rejected as a woman with further habilitational studies at the University of Freiburg and failed to successfully reach in a habilitational study "Psychische Kausalität" (Psychic Causality) at the University of Göttingen in 1919. Relief of Edith Stein While Stein had earlier contacts with Catholicism , it was her reading of the autobiography of the mystic St. Teresa of Ávila on a holiday in Göttingen in 1921 that caused her conversion. Baptized on January 1, 1922, she gave up her assistantship with Husserl to teach at a Dominican girls' school in Speyer from 1922 to 1932. While there, she translated Thomas Aquinas ' De Veritate ( On Truth ) into German and familiarized herself with Catholic philosophy in general and abandoned the phenomenology of her former teacher Husserl for Thomism. She visited Husserl and Heidegger at Freiburg in April 1929, in the same month that Heidegger gave a speech to Husserl (like Stein, a Jewish convert to Christianity) on his 70th birthday. In 1932 she became a lecturer at the Institute ... read more

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