Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Saint Edith Stein
    Saint Edith Stein
    Saint Edith Stein
    Ebook42 pages49 minutes

    Saint Edith Stein

    By Bob Lord and Penny Lord

    5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Saint Edith Stein was a Convert to Catholicism from the Jewish Faith. She became a Carmelite Nun and was gassed to death at Auschwitz. Bob and Penny Lord traveled to Germany and Auschwitz to bring you this ebook about the life and death of Saint Edith Stein.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJourneys of Faith
    Release dateSep 11, 2010
    ISBN9781452368481
    Saint Edith Stein
    Author

    Bob Lord

    Bob and Penny Lord renowned Catholic Authors and hosts on EWTN. They are best known for their media on Miracles of the Eucharist and Many Faces of Mary. They have been dubbed experts on the Catholic Saints. They produced over 200 television programs for EWTN global television network and wrote over 25 books and hundreds of ebooks.

    Read more from Bob Lord

    Related to Saint Edith Stein

    Titles in the series (57)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Scent Of Roses

      Apr 25, 2019

      The Scent Of Roses
      3 min read

    • Article

      Mary DID YOU KNOW?

      Nov 18, 2019

      Mary DID YOU KNOW?
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Doctor Is In

      Jul 30, 2019

      The Doctor Is In
      3 min read

    • Article

      Escaping Genocide

      Feb 2, 2020

      The Theresienstadt concentration camp, near Prague, was presented to the world as an idyllic thermal spa, Hitler’s “gift to the Jews”. Hitler’s propaganda machine ensured that the camp, established in an old stone-fortress town, received favourable c

      6 min read

    • Article

      Commentary: Can The World Agree Upon A 'Common Memory' Of The Holocaust?

      Feb 16, 2018

      My mother and father were survivors of Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald. All that remained of our family tree were a few yellowed photographs tucked away in a drawer. I can't pinpoint exactly when I first learned that, aside from my parents, every cl

      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Nov 1, 2021

      The afterlife is an infinity of custom shelving, where everything you have ever loved has a perfect place, including things that don’t fit on shelves, like the weeping willow from your parents’ backyard, or an old boyfriend, exactly as he was in your

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Happiest Man On Earth

      Nov 5, 2020

      We were a big loving family. I was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany. My father, Isidore, and mum, Lina, had me soon after they married, followed by my sister, Johanna – Henni for short. Proud of our country, we considered ourselves German first, and

      6 min read

    • Article

      Force For Good

      Apr 16, 2023

      These days, “resilience” has become a somewhat hackneyed word. But not for Inge Woolf. The Holocaust survivor, who found love, prosperity, acceptance and influence as an émigré to New Zealand, once declared that resilience was “the hope to see there

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Sage of Narnia

      Nov 15, 2023

      The Sage of Narnia
      3 min read

    • Article

      My History Hero

      Sep 2, 2021

      My History Hero
      2 min read

    • Article

      ‘My Prussian Relatives won't Be Forgotten’

      Oct 18, 2022

      Following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, the Nazis began destroying Jewish cemeteries and removing their matzevot (singular matzevah) or grave markers. Some were used as kerbstones or building material. Thankfully, many of these p

      3 min read

    • Article

      Adam LeBor on Television

      Dec 23, 2020

      Adam LeBor on Television
      3 min read

    • Article

      Surviving The Straits Of Hell

      Dec 23, 2020

      NINETY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MOSHE HA-ELION proudly ushers me forward to admire the view from his smart fourteenth-floor apartment overlooking the beach in Bat Yam, south of Jaffa. It is late January and the mist is rising over the Mediterranean as if shield

      9 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Saint Edith Stein

    5/5

    2 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Saint Edith Stein - Bob Lord

      Saint Edith Stein

      Bob and Penny Lord

      Published by Bob and Penny Lord at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Bob and Penny Lord

      Discover other titles by Bob and Penny Lord at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bobandpennylord

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashword.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      Martyrs of AuschwitzSaint Edith Stein

      Saint Maximilian Kolbe

      Jesus remember me when You come into Your Kingdom. We were staying in the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, in Krakow, Poland. The good sisters wanted the little pre-school children to sing and perform skits for us.They were so proud of their little charges.

      The children went from love songs to Jesus and Mary in Polish, to the only song they knew in English: Jesus remember me when You come into Your Kingdom. Little did the sisters know why we were crying. As we scanned their precious innocent faces, all we could see were the precious innocent faces of children who, fifty years before, had gone to their horrible deaths in the Nazi death camps of Adolf Hitler. For you see, just two days before, we had walked the Way of the Cross through Auschwitz.

      Our guide at the Concentration Camp said that no one leaves Auschwitz unchanged. She warned us that we would never forget Auschwitz! And she was right! For many years, we had avoided the ugly graphic truth of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. In the Holy Land, we avoided the Monument to the Holocaust. Whenever we visited Germany, we said our Rosary and the prayers for the dead as we passed quickly by Dachau. But stop and go inside? No way! I remember one time, when our daughter wanted to go inside Dachau, I said I’m so sorry, but I can’t!

      When we wrote of Saint Maxmilian Kolbe, I found myself very emotionally connected with him, a Pole (and I am not Polish), a Franciscan (and I am not a Franciscan), a Priest and a Martyr. But as I wrote on the life of this phenomenal human being who would have been declared a Saint, even if he had not chosen to give his life for another, I found myself weeping uncontrollably, as his story went from my fingers to the word processor to the pages of our book: Saint and Other Powerful Men in the Church. I knew then that we had to go to Poland! I wanted to discover our connection with Maxmilian Kolbe and the people of Poland, and especially His Holiness Pope John Paul II.

      But still, I was not looking forward to Auschwitz. How would I be able to go to Cell Block 11, and stand in the room and look upon the spot where Maxmilian Kolbe was injected with a lethal dose of poisonous acid? How could I stand where he had stood with the other prisoners outside of Cell Block 17 in the scorching heat for twenty four hours? I didn’t want to go!

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1