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The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

Edith Stein

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Edith Stein
Age: 50 †
Born: 1891
Born: October 12
Died: 1942
Died: August 9
Linguist
Philosopher
Religious
Religious Sister
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Theologian
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University Teacher
Writer
Breslau
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
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