Teresia Benedicta a Cruce«Teresa Benedicta of the Cross / Teresia Benedicta vom Kreuz / Teresa Benedykta od Krzyża / Edyta Stein / Edith Stein»

(1891–1942)
Martyr, Nun
Orders/Societies Associated with: Discalced Carmelites*
Place of birth:German Empire (Second Reich)
Place of death:Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau)††
Feastday
9 August
Beatification
01/05/1987 by Ioannes Paulus II
Canonisation
11/10/1998 by Ioannes Paulus II
Patronage
Patron of:Europe†††
*Order of the Discalced Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel / Ordo Fratrum Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Beatae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmelo [1562]
Deutsches Reich / Deutsches Kaiserreich (Zweites Reich) [1871–1918]
††KL Auschwitz / Konzentrationslager Auschwitz [1940–1945]
†††Europa / An Eoraip / Európa / Европа / Ευρώπη / Ewropa / Eurooppa / Evropa / אייראפע

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia