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Finding God Through Beauty: A Conversation with Liz Lev

Liz Lev, a renowned art historian beloved both at ICTE and among priests on sabbatical, passionately shares her love of sacred art. Let us listen as she explains how the Via Pulchritudinis — the Way of Beauty — can become a path toward God, and a path of God.

Elizabeth Lev, daughter of former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon, has been a tour guide in Rome for over 25 years. Whether as an art historian, a lecturer, or a writer—she is the author of four books, including *How Catholic Art Saved the Faith: The Triumph and Beauty of Counter-Reformation Art*— Liz Lev always speaks about art with passion, faith, and remarkable clarity about masterpieces of art.

And that is precisely why priests on sabbatical love her so much.

Priests on sabbatical have the opportunity not only to attend Liz’s fascinating lectures at Casa O’Toole, but also to accompany her on unforgettable visits through Rome, Florence and even France.

To walk with Liz along the path of beauty, as medieval pilgrims in Burgundy or artists of the Italian Renaissance once did, is to allow oneself to be touched, moved and transformed while journeying together with fellow priests.

And is that not the beginning of every conversion?