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Unpublished photo of Edith Stein discovered by accident

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Nieznane zdjęcie św. Edyty Stein
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Agnieszka Bugała - Bérengère Dommaigné - published on 08/13/22
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When he looked closely at the photograph, this historian knew it had to be St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.

In the photograph, a 4×6 postcard format dating from 1915, we see a group of nurses apparently standing around seven doctors from the Czech town of Hranice, located about 200 miles east of Prague. 

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