Morior Invictus
(12 October 1891 to 09 August 1942)
Edith Stein was an influential German Jewish philosopher. An atheist by the time she was a teenager, she was influenced by the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila and converted to the Roman Catholic Church. She was baptized at the age of 31.
She entered Teresa’s Order and became a Discalced Carmelite nun.
With many others, she was arrested in retaliation for the Church’s public stand against Nazism and antisemitism.
She was killed at Auschwitz.
God of our Fathers,
who brought the Martyr Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
to know your crucified Son and to imitate him even until death,
grant, through her intercession,
that the whole human race may acknowledge Christ as its Savior
and through him come to behold you for eternity.Who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.Amen.
And by the way… why is the updated Roman Martyrology not available in English?