TY - BOOK ID - 64395039 TI - Parables of the Cross PY - 2013 SN - 1625589050 4064066106485 9700000022189 PB - Lanham : Start Publishing LLC, DB - UniCat KW - Holy Cross -- Devotional literature. KW - Holy Cross -- Prayers and devotions. KW - Religion. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64395039 AB - Isabella Lilias Trotter (1853-1928) was an artist and a missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria. John Ruskin, the famous art critic, didn't believe that ladies could paint before he met Lilias. He changed his mind after he met her and believed that if she would give her life to painting she could become the greatest painter of the nineteenth century. Ruskin believed that if she would devote herself to art ""she would be the greatest living painter and do things that would be immortal. "" He was unhappy that she was spending so much time on the streets of London, helping with the ER -