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Amid well-raked gravel walks and faultlessly kept gardens in the suburbs of Darmstadt (pop. 125,000) stands one of the most unusual convents in Germany. No casual visitor to the Sisterhood of St. Mary would notice what makes it different; like most Roman Catholic nuns, its 58 sisters wear wedding rings symbolizing their spiritual marriage to Christ, use religious names, make confession regularly, and practice a special devotion to the Virgin Mary. What makes them unusual is that they are Protestants...
...convent was founded shortly after the war by two Bible teachers, Dr. Klara Schlink, daughter of an engineering professor, and Erika Maddaus, daughter of a merchant. Even after Hitler had banned Bible classes, the two teachers went on instructing a group of girls in a Darmstadt attic. In the night of Sept. n, 1944, an Allied saturation raid blasted the city. Wrote Dr. Schlink (now Mother Basilea): "It was a different language from human preaching. It was as awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls...
EDWARD J. COFFEY Darmstadt, Germany...
Education: At Darmstadt schools, excelling in Latin and Greek; studied law at the universities of Frankfurt, Giessen. Munich and Grenoble (France): took over the family law practice in 1932. Speaks good French and Italian, fair English...
Personal Life: Youngest of six children, Heinrich von Brentano devoted many years of his life to the care of his widowed mother; a confirmed bachelor whose hobbies are collecting silver and old furniture for his apartments in Darmstadt and Bonn, he is a connoisseur of wines and highbrow conversation, an admirer of Thomas Mann. Says he of cocktail parties: "When I have to go to any of them. I tell my chauffeur not to switch off the gas, for I'll be back in a few minutes." A hater of demagogy, and himself a poor orator...