Edith is one of my first loves as a young woman.

I was introduced to her thought when I was 15 or 16 in high school.

My husband often says about Aristotle.

He says, there are some authors one encounters that one reads just so.

And there are other authors that one reads to become patterned after,

that one discovers along the way that one wants to think like this person.

And I think that that's what I thought when I first read Edith,

I thought, this is the sort of person that one should get to know very well. So it's been kind of a lifelong,

a lifelong passion of mine to read her work. So I'm thinking, it's really especially

lovely to be speaking about Edith Stein under the auspices of the Temistic Institute. Edith has an interesting connection to the Dominicans, and I don't know

if many of you know this. I don't know how much any of you know about Edith Stein at all, in fact.

So I will, I'm happy to take other questions about her life. But she has an interesting

connection to the Dominican order.

So, though you probably know that Edith was a Carmelite, none, before she died,

and we think of her as a Carmelite, of course, a Carmelite saint,

she, in fact, converted, especially after reading the autobiography of Trace of Avala,

she was at least partly a Dominican in spirit, I think.

And I say this for two reasons.

First, Edith was possessed of an extraordinary philosophical spirit.

So if you haven't spent a lot of time with her, it's kind of remarkable.

So many people I say study philosophy, right?

There's philosophy, they study it.

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