“Martyred for their Catholic faith, martyred for their Jewish blood”

California Catholic Daily ^ | May 19, 2010

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“Martyred for their Catholic faith, martyred for their Jewish blood”

Lives of Catholic Jewish martyrs recounted in new book, “Edith Stein and Companions: On the Way to Auschwitz”

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- A fascinating new book just released from Ignatius Press, "Edith Stein and Companions: On the Way to Auschwitz," recounts the inspirational stories of the Catholic Jewish martyrs.

On the same summer day in 1942, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) and hundreds of other Catholic Jews were arrested in Holland by the occupying Nazis. Of those arrested, 113 (several of them priests and nuns) perished at Auschwitz and other concentration camps. They were murdered in retaliation for the anti-Nazi pastoral letter written by the Dutch Catholic bishops.

While Saint Teresa Benedicta is the most famous member of this group, having been canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1998, all of them deserve the title of martyr, for they were killed not only because they were Jews but also because of the faith of the Church, which had compelled the Dutch bishops to protest the Nazi regime.

Through extensive research in both original and secondary sources, author Fr. Paul Hamans has compiled these martyrs' biographies, several of them detailed and accompanied by photographs. Fr. Hamans writes, "For the first time in the English language, a still incomplete list of Edith Stein's eighty-two travel companions to Auschwitz is published in the present work. The lives of twenty-eight of these murdered Catholic Jews are depicted by means of individual biographies. In the interest of historical authenticity the biographies were based, whenever possible, on accounts of those who saw and heard the events firsthand."

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Edith Stein and Companions [Paperback]

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"Martyred for their Catholic faith, martyred for their Jewish blood”
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A meditation on the martyrdom of St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross
Edith Stein, Apostate Saint
Edith Stein — Convert, Nun, Martyr
My Journey With St. Edith Stein
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Thanks for the addition!