The book contains an impressive gallery of portraits of prominent cultural figures, created by Acad. Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga (Mother Benedicta): George Enescu, Constantin Brâncuși, Nicolae Iorga, Lucian Blaga, Mircea Eliade, Mihail Sadoveanu, Dumitru Stăniloae, Cella Delavrancea, Vasile Voiculescu, George Călinescu, Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu, Gheorghe Brătianu, Dragoș Protopopescu, Petru Comarnescu, Gheorghe Anghel, Vasile Băncilă, Principesa Ileana – Maica Alexandra, Theodor Pallady and many other. These pages attest to their author as a brilliant portrait writer, with a remarkably synthetic vision of the essential traits harmonizing into each personality.

The portraits – strikingly expressive, capturing everything from physical features to intellectual, moral, and artistic traits – gain an authentic stature of role models through Acad. Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga – Mother Benedicta’s vast memory, literary gift, and nuance-capturing ability. The author held them in the highest regard and deeply understood that those she wrote about embodied the spirit of an entire nation, as they were imbued both with the “structuring elements of Romanian creativity” and the thoughts and feelings of all humanity.