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| | Hiatt Holocaust Collection - Edith Stein |
 | | On May 1, 1987, Edith Stein, a Carmelite nun and a victim of the Holocaust at Auschwitz, was beatified, along with Father Rupert Mayer, a Jesuit priest known for his resistance to the Nazis, during a Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II in Cologne, West Germany. |
 | | Nota's hope that Edith Stein's thought will become more accessible to a wider audience, both among students and the general public, so that people will appreciate her understanding of human existance and be helped to live out that existance themselves, meaningfully and fraternally, in the midst of a troubled world. |
 | | For all these reasons Edith Stein Hall has been named in honor of a remarkable woman who was a brilliant philosopher and lecturer, a productive researcher and author, a fine teacher, a mystic, an exemplary feminist, a victim of the Holocaust and a friend of several Jesuits. |
| www.holycross.edu /departments/history/vlapomar/hiatt/estein.htm (2543 words) |
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