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St. Edith Stein penned a heartfelt poem when her sister Rosa was baptized. In it, Rosa lovingly declares: 'Mary, my Mother and your Mother, Has given me her name.'
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On 16 November 1937 St. Edith Stein writes, “My sister Rosa is living wholly on faith […] interiorly she is completely alone.” Learn about Rosa’s difficult path from baptism to the Carmel of Echt and the pitfalls she faced along the way.
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St. Edith Stein writes an old friend in Switzerland to ask if she could assist to obtain entry permits and visas for herself and her older sister Rosa, who has been an extern sister and outside sacristan at the Carmel of Echt since 1 July 1939.
For the love of God and man, once again I raise an anguished cry: May such criminal deeds never be repeated against any ethnic group, against any race, in any corner of this world!
For a long time we have been writing a card only in most urgent cases. But now I am permitted to go beyond that...
"It was a feast such as the Cologne Carmel has never seen"
Rosa also has no toothbrush, no Cross and no rosary
It was a feast such as the Cologne Carmel has never seen
I look forward with so much joy to the silence
Every petition [on behalf] of fully Jewish Catholics has been forbidden since yesterday
I met Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce, known in the camp as Edith Stein, in the transit camp at Amersfoort
St. Edith Stein's thank-you to Swiss Carmelites
After the August 2 arrest of St. Edith and her sister Rosa Stein, the police van drove them from the Carmel of Echt to the police headquarters in Roermond, Holland. Later the same day, they were transported to the Amersfoort transit camp, arriving after midnight August 3. Traveling in the same van with Edith and Rosa was Sister Judith Mendes da Costa, a Dominican nun who was an administrator in the Dominican sanitarium Berg en Bosch in Bilthoven, Holland.
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