Emphasis Preaching Journal

On Sunday, October 11, 1998, Pope John Paul II canonized Teresa Benedicta (1891-1942). She was born a Jew named Edith Stein but was baptized at the age of thirty, and eleven years later, under her new name, she took the vows of a Carmelite nun. During World War II, even though she was a Christian, she was made to wear the Jewish star. When German troops occupying Holland rounded up all Jewish-born Catholic converts in the summer of 1942, she was sent to Auschwitz, where she died in a gas chamber.