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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Edith Stein was born into an observant Jewish family in Germany in 1891 but had turned agnostic by her teens. She completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg in 1916 and became an assistant to Edmund Husserl. Reading the life of Teresa of Ávila drew her to Christianity; she was baptized on 1 January 1922. She wanted immediately to enter the Carmelites but was dissuaded, so she taught at a Jewish school in Speyer until the Nazi government's 1933 Aryan certificate law forced her out. She entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Cologne in November 1933, taking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, and made her perpetual vows in 1938. That same year she and her sister Rosa, also a convert, were sent to a monastery in the Netherlands for safety. After Dutch bishops publicly condemned Nazi treatment of Jews in July 1942, the Gestapo arrested all baptized Catholics of Jewish origin on 2 August. Stein and Rosa were deported to Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber on 9 August 1942.