St. Edith Stein – Restored Photograph – Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross – Catholic Art Print Prairie Grasses this image - from a

this image - from a turn of the century holy card - makes its point very simply

The image portrays the peaceful action of the Holy Spirit with the olive branch in his mouth

"The Tree of Life

The heart is pierced

"I think that in Heaven my mission will be to draw souls by helping them to go out of themselves in order to cling to God by a wholly simple and loving movement

St. Edith Stein – Restored Photograph – Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross – Catholic Art Print Prairie Grasses this image - from aSt. Edith Stein Restored Photograph You can see in her gaze the strength of mind she had. She was a scholar, a philosopher, and a teacher. She wrote books and papers on phenomenology. Edith Stein (1891 1942) was born into a devout Jewish family. She was bright and encouraged to study and learn. Top of her class through her school years, by graduate school she was a student of the influential philosopher Edmund Husserl. She was persistently working her