Edith Stein
October 12, 1891 — August 9, 1942
Edith Stein was a Jewish philosopher who served as a Red Cross nurse during WWI, earned her doctorate under Edmund Husserl in 1916, and converted to Catholicism in 1922 after a single night reading Teresa of Ávila. She entered the Carmelite order in 1933, was seized by the Gestapo in the Netherlands in 1942, and was killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz on August 9 — her feast day.