New! Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity Playing the Piano – Exclusive Restored Photo – Catholic Art Print

Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906) was a Carmelite nun from France known for her quiet mysticism and deep devotion to God. This is a happy picture of the young Saint posing for the camera as she worked the piano. She was a gifted pianist. She came from an upper middle-class family, her father a military officer in France, but she gave up material wealth in exchange for the wealth of the spirit. Not that we can't have nice things, but Elizabeth found her way in the simple, holy life of the Carmel.

About being in the convent, she said this in a letter: "I can't find words to express my happiness. Here there is no longer anything but God. He is All; He suffices and we live by Him alone."

Towards the end of her life, she said: "I think that in Heaven my mission will be to draw souls by helping them to go out of themselves in order to cling to God by a wholly simple and loving movement, and to keep them in this great silence which will allow God to communicate Himself to them and to transform them into Himself."

She died when she was 26 years old by a painful disease. Her last words were: "I am going to Light, to Love, to Life!"

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** IMPORTANT ** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER! There is a blank border around the image. Approximately 0.5" wide for 5x7, 1.3" for 8.5x11, 1.6" for 11x14, and 1.75" for 13x17 and 16x20. For the two poster sizes, 18x24 and 24x36, we use 0.5" borders. We do this because the ratio of the rectangle of the art almost never matches the rectangle of the paper, and if it did happen to match one size, it would not match the others. Most fine art printers do this because otherwise they’d have to crop the art or warp it to make it fit the paper. The border looks good. It gives the picture a faux matted appearance.

There is almost always a little more border either on the left-right sides, or the top-bottom, depending on whether the ratio of the art is wider or taller than the paper.

We make Archival Quality fine art prints:

– Acid-free paper

– Archival pigments

– Cardboard backer for sizes 11x14 and less.

– Above story of the art

– Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal-clear bag.

– Rated to last 200+ years without fading if kept dry and out of the direct sun.

Thanks for your interest!

+JMJ+

Sue & John

Lincoln, Nebraska

“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.”

~ St. Pope John Paul II

License information: This file is transmitted by “Willuconquer” under the name “Photographie d'Elisabeth de la Trinité enfant jouant du piano,” and it is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. In that same spirit, our restorations and improvements are done with that same license. Your attribution of us as the source can be fulfilled by the watermark. Original image is out-of-copyright.