The Conversion of Edith Stein

One Fateful Day Edith Stein took from a friend's bookshelf the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila. In it she found the simple truth about human existence. Shortly afterward, she became a Catholic, but her desire to become a Carmelite like Teresa was delayed for some time. Eventually she entered the convent in Cologne. Because the Nazi persecution of Jews, converted or not, endangered others in her convent, she asked to be moved to a convent in the Netherlands. The German armies of occup...