This is our extraordinary Saint Edith Stein Plaque. St. Edith Stein (1891-1942) – known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, OCD – was an academic philosopher (a student of Edmund Husserl as well as an associate of Martin Heidegger), a convert from Judaism, a discalced Carmelite nun and a victim-martyr of the most infamous Nazi concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz. This bronze plaque is an especially suitable gift for a first communion, confirmation, birthday, or Edith Stein’s feast day on August 9th.
A Bronze Wall Plaque in Three Sizes
Available in three sizes – small (p155k – 2 x 1.8 inches), medium (p39m – 2.75 x 2.25 inches) or large (p210g – 7.9 x 6.3 inches) – this solid bronze plaque can be hung easily on any wall in home or office. This solid bronze plaque was designed and cast by a German master bronzesmith. This is an especially fitting gift for that special “Edith” in your life!
Edith Stein: Victim of the Shoah — St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross: Martyr of the Faith
Edith Stein was one of at least 1.1 million prisoners – 90 percent of them Jewish – who perished in Auschwitz. Approximately 1 in 6 Jews killed during the Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: “whole burnt offering”) – also known as the Shoah(Hebrew: השואה, “the catastrophe”) – died in Auschwitz. This plaque depicts St. Teresa Benedicta writing Finite and Eternal Being – her attempt to reconcile the phenomenology of Husserl with Thomism. Before her blazes IHS – the name “Jesus” in Greek (ΙΗΣ are the first three letters of ΙΗΣΟΥΣ = Jesus). Behind her is displayed the Star of David (a symbol of her Jewish heritage), the palm frond of martyrdom, and a Nazi prison guard in Auschwitz. St. Teresa Benedicta was gassed to death on August 9, 1942.
A Letter to the Pope
In her letter to Pope Pius XI on April 20, 1933, Edith Stein denounced the Nazi regime and pleaded with the Pope to denounce the regime openly and “to put a stop to this abuse of Christ’s name”:
As a child of the Jewish people who, by the grace of God, for the past eleven years has also been a child of the Catholic Church, I dare to speak to the Father of Christianity about that which oppresses millions of Germans. For weeks we have seen deeds perpetrated in Germany which mock any sense of justice and humanity, not to mention love of neighbor. For years the leaders of National Socialism have been preaching hatred of the Jews. Now that they have seized the power of government and armed their followers, among them proven criminal elements, this seed of hatred has germinated. The government has only recently admitted that excesses have occurred. To what extent, we cannot tell, because public opinion is being gagged. However, judging by what I have learned from personal relations, it is in no way a matter of singular exceptional cases. Under pressure from reactions abroad, the government has turned to “milder” methods. It has issued the watchword “no Jew shall have even one hair on his head harmed.” But through boycott measures – by robbing people of their livelihood, civic honor and fatherland – it drives many to desperation; within the last week, through private reports I was informed of five cases of suicide as a consequence of these hostilities. I am convinced that this is a general condition which will claim many more victims. One may regret that these unhappy people do not have greater inner strength to bear their misfortune. But the responsibility must fall, after all, on those who brought them to this point and it also falls on those who keep silent in the face of such happenings.
Everything that happened and continues to happen on a daily basis originates with a government that calls itself “Christian.” For weeks not only Jews but also thousands of faithful Catholics in Germany, and, I believe, all over the world, have been waiting and hoping for the Church of Christ to raise its voice to put a stop to this abuse of Christ’s name. Is not this idolization of race and governmental power which is being pounded into the public consciousness by the radio open heresy? Isn’t the effort to destroy Jewish blood an abuse of the holiest humanity of our Savior, of the most blessed Virgin and the apostles? Is not all this diametrically opposed to the conduct of our Lord and Savior, who, even on the cross, still prayed for his persecutors? And isn’t this a black mark on the record of this Holy Year which was intended to be a year of peace and reconciliation?
We all, who are faithful children of the Church and who see the conditions in Germany with open eyes, fear the worst for the prestige of the Church, if the silence continues any longer. We are convinced that this silence will not be able in the long run to purchase peace with the present German government. For the time being, the fight against Catholicism will be conducted quietly and less brutally than against Jewry, but no less systematically. It won’t take long before no Catholic will be able to hold office in Germany unless he dedicates himself unconditionally to the new course of action.
At the feet of your Holiness, requesting your apostolic blessing,
(Signed) Dr. Edith Stein, Instructor at the German Institute for Scientific Pedagogy, Münster in Westphalia, Collegium Marianum.
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She never received any reply to her letter, and it is not known for certain whether the Pope ever even read it. However, in 1937, in his encyclical (written in German) Mit Brennender Sorge (With Burning Concern), the Pope criticized National Socialism, listed violations of the 1933 Concordat between Germany and the Catholic Church, and condemned antisemitism.
Spiritually we are all semites.
In September 1938 Pius XI went on to state:
Mark well that in the Catholic Mass, Abraham is our Patriarch and forefather. Anti-Semitism is incompatible with the lofty thought which that fact expresses. It is a movement with which we Christians can have nothing to do. No, no I say to you it is impossible for a Christian to take part in anti-Semitism. It is inadmissible. Through Christ and in Christ we are the spiritual progeny of Abraham. Spiritually we are all Semites.
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