Carolyn Beard is an alumna of Princeton University researching the life and legacy of St. Edith Stein with a Fulbright grant in Cologne, Germany. Matriculating at Harvard Divinity School next fall, Carolyn hosts the podcast “Prayer to Go.”
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Edith Stein: Patron Saint of Political Resistance
10-10-2018
Saint Edith Stein. Wikipedia Commons.
On the 20th anniversary of her canonization, we have the opportunity to reassess St. Edith Stein’s life and legacy. Instead of remembering her simply as a tragic victim, we can take a deeper look at the work she undertook during her lifetime. Over the course of four decades, Stein dedicated her life to civic engagement and political resistance. From volunteering with the Red Cross in World War I, to participating in the women’s suffrage movement in Prussia, to fighting for equal educational opportunities for women, to writing against the rise of the Nazi regime, Stein is much more than the “Holocaust martyr” – she is the patron saint of political resistance.