that she needed to be prepared to be received into the Church. He asked, "How long have you been receiving instruction and who has been giving it?" The only thing Edith could say was, "Please, your Reverence, test my knowledge." Edith did not fail in her answers and the Priest agreed to baptize her. Edith asked her friend Hedwig Conrad-Martius to be her sponsor. The Baptism was on New Years Day, January 1, 1922. She chose the name Teresa as a thanksgiving.She then gave up her assistantship with Husserl and left to teach at a Dominican girls' school in Speyer. While she was there she translated St. Thomas Aquinas' On Truth and became familiar with Roman Catholic philosophy. In 1932, she left and became a lecturer at the Institute for Pedagogy at Munster but had to resign in 1933 because of anti-Semitism, the discrimination and persecution of Jews. In 1934 she became a Carmelite at the convent of Cologne. She took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. There she completed her first work "Endliches und ewiges Sein", trying to put together the different philosophies of Aquinas and Husserl. In 1938 the Nazi threat was growing. She was transferred to the Carmelite convent at Echt in the Netherlands taking her sister Rosa with her. There she wrote "Studie uber Joannes a Cruce: Kruezeswissenschaft" When the Nazis conquered Holland , Adolf Hitler ordered the arrest of all those who were Jewish members of the Dutch religious orders because of many Catholic protests against the treatment of the Jewish people. On July 26, 1942 Edith and her sister Rosa, also a convert, were arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz Germany now Poland. Survivors said that she helped all other sufferers with great compassion, the value that she had. On August 9, 1942 she was sent to a crowded gas chamber where she died with her sister. The decree that approved her writings was issued in 1978. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on M...
