“The deeper one is drawn into God, the more he needs to go out of himself — out into the world, that is, to carry the divine life into it.“ ~ Edith Stein [Saint Francis of Assisi with the Sultan of Egypt, Centro Aletti (Marko Rupnik)]
• Edith Stein (1891–1942) was a realist phenomenologist associated with the Göttingen school and later a Christian metaphysician. She was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in 1922 and was ordained a Carmelite nun in 1933. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stein/
• Marko Ivan Rupnik (Salloga d'Idria, November 28, 1954) is a Slovenian artist, theologian and presbyter, belonging to the Jesuits. Together with the Spiritual Art Atelier of the Aletti Center, of which he is director, he has created famous works all over the world... More: http://www.churches-of-rome.info/ArtistBios/RUPNIK.pdf
• For an enlightening discussion concerning the historic meeting between St. Francis and the Sultan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yvG5E4oXSI&t=2s