Chapel

Edith Stein (1891–1942), one of the patron saints of Europe, was born into a Jewish family and studied German literature, philosophy, history and classical languages. Inspired by exchanges with fellow students and, in particular, by the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, she was baptised at the age of thirty.
Her subsequent path in life was shaped first by her work as a teacher and scholar before she entered the Carmelite convent in Cologne at almost forty years of age. During her brief but intense years as a religious sister, she witnessed the persecution of the Jewish people and ultimately her own deportation to Auschwitz, where she died on 9 August 1942. A relic of Saint Edith Stein is preserved beneath the altar of the chapel. Throughout her life, Edith Stein sought truth and the deeper foundation of human existence. One of her most well-known quotations reads: “Whoever seeks the truth seeks God, whether consciously or unconsciously.” The suffering she experienced during the National Socialist era shaped this search profoundly. She was sustained by the conviction that human experience ultimately remains a mystery that will be fully revealed only at the end of time in Christ.
With its simple and uncluttered design, the chapel invites visitors to pause, find inner peace and bring their concerns before God.