NAZI VICTIM BECOMES 1ST JEWISH-BORN SAINT OF MODERN ERA.(MAIN)

Byline: ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press

VATICAN CITY -- Under towering marble figures of the Jews who founded Christianity, Pope John Paul II on Sunday decreed the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a nun killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

From now on, the Pope said, Catholics should commemorate all the Holocaust's murdered Jews each year when they mark the day Stein died -- Aug. 9.

``In the martyr Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross so many differences meet and are resolved in peace,'' John Paul, using the name Stein chose when she became a nun, told the thousands filling St. Peter's Square.

``The value of …