As for Lilias, she responded to the suffering she saw with a ministry of presence. And yet, she bore in her character many qualities that made so many of the artists who came before her so great. Like Michelangelo, she was captured by beauty. She instinctively knew there was such a thing as glory and that we were made for it, to be part of it. Michelangelo and Lilias both sought that glory by trying to make from stone hearts of flesh.
