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Sixtieth Anniversary of the Death of St. Edith Stein
Observances connected with the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Edith Stein will be held from August 6-9 in the Oświęcim Center for Dialogue and Prayer. The main mass will be celebrated by Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, Archbishop of Cracow. The Days of Recollection will include a visit to the site of the concentration camp and a nocturnal vigil in the Carmelite Sisters convent.
The entire three-day commemoration will be led by Fathers Manfred Deselaers and Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel. Father Deselaers is a German priest who lectures at the Papal Theological Academy in Cracow and works at the Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim, while Father Weksler-Waszkinel was 35 years old and had been a Catholic priest for twelve years when he learned about his Jewish origins and the fact that he had been rescued from the Holocaust by a Polish Catholic family. He lectures at the Catholic University of Lublin.
