ISIS “Edith Stein”

Gavirate (VA)

Edith Stein was born on October 12, 1891 in Wrocław, into an observant Jewish family. In 1916, she received a doctorate of philosophy and she became a member of the faculty in Freiburg.

While Stein had earlier contacts with Catholicism, it was her reading of the autobiography of the mystic St. Teresa of Ávila on a holiday in Göttingen in 1921 that caused her conversion. Baptized on January 1, 1922, she gave up her assistantship to teach at a Dominican girls' school in Speyer from 1922 to 1932.

She entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery St. Maria vom Frieden at Cologne in 1933 and took the name Teresia Benedicta a cruce (Teresia Benedicta of the Cross). To avoid the growing Nazi threat, her order transferred Sr. Teresia Benedicta to the Carmelite monastery at Echt in the Netherlands.

However, Sr. Teresia Benedicta was not safe in the Netherlands. In a retaliatory response on July 26, 1942, the Reichskomissar of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, ordered the arrest of all Jewish converts, who had previously been spared. Stein and her sister Rosa, also a convert, were captured and shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were gassed on August 9, 1942.

Our school organization

IN OUR SCHOOL THERE ARE ABOUT 60 CLASSROOMS, 1300 STUDENTS AND 130 THEACHERS. THERE ARE ALSO ABOUT 35 EXECUTIVE, THECNICAL AND SCHOOL ASSISTANTS.

OUR HEADMASTER IS MR DOMENICO SQUILLACE.

THERE ARE THREE TECHNICAL DRAWING CLASSROOMS, TWO INFORMATIC CLASSROOMS,

TWO SCIENCE LABS, A LIBRARY, TWO SPORTS HALLS, AND A GYM.

THERE’S ALSO A BAR, NAMED “LE PLEIADI”.

In our school there are two kinds of school: Lyceum and Tecnical High School.

Lyceum Technical High School Liceo Classico

Liceo Scientifico

Liceo Scientifico Bilingue

Liceo Scientifico PNI

Istituto Tecnico Commerciale

Istituto Tecnico Periti Aziendali

Istituto Tecnico per Geometri

Istituto Tecnico per i Servizi Sociali

Classical Lyceum

In Classical Lyceum humanistic subjects are very important: we study

Latin, Greek, Literature,

Philosophy, History and Art History,

but we study also scientific subjets,

like Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics

My school timetableMonday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

08:05

09:00

Philosophy Chemistry Italian Maths English History

09:00

09:55

English Greek Latin Latin Philosophy Art History

09:55

10:50

Religion Greek History Chemistry Physics Chemistry

10:50

11:00

Break Break Break Break Break Break

11:00

11:50

Sports Philosophy English Italian Greek Italian

11:50

12:40

History Maths Physics Italian Sports Latin

12:40

13:30

Latin