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A talk and film honouring Edith Stein (St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), who died in the gas chamber at Birkenau, will take place at Walsingham Parish Hall on Friday September 27.
Entitled ‘An evening with Edith Stein – Jew, philosopher, mystic, martyr, and Catholic Saint’, it will start at 7pm with a talk by Daniel Côté Davis, philosophy teacher and host at EWTN Great Britain, called: ‘Those who remain silent are responsible: Daring to risk everything rather than living a lie.’
This will be followed at 8pm by a showing of the film ‘A Rose in Winter’ (2018) about Edith’s heroic life. Please note this film is rated 16+ only and is 2hr and 15 mins long).
Chocolate and refreshments will be available after the talk and the cost is £5 for adults with children free admission. Donations will be welcomed towards the purchase of a small icon of St Edith to promote her veneration amongst young people.
Edith Stein OCD was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. Edith was murdered in the gas chamber at Birkenau by the Nazis on August 9, 1942, and is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe.
Pictured above is Edith Stein, shortly before her death at the Birkenau Concentration Camp in August 1942.
