Dr Alice von Hildebrand discusses the life of Edith Stein. Edith Stein was a gifted Jewish child, who excelled in all her studies,, but as a result was not humble, and eventually became an agnostic. She became a philosopher, but after meeting several men who were her intellectual equals and reading the autobiography of the mystic Teresa of Avila during summer holidays in 1921, she converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. Murdered by the Nazis in 1942, she is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church, and she is one of six co-patron saints of Europe.