Twin copper-domed towers rise above one of Christendom's great pilgrimage destinations — the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln — as a father sent a tender, philosophical note to his family in Vienna on a warm May afternoon in 1954. The hand-tinted chrome view captures the sweeping Baroque forecourt, its semicircular colonnaded wings embracing the monumental Marienbrunnen fountain at center, the green hills of the canton of Schwyz rolling away behind. A father (signing simply "Vater") penned a poetic German verse: "Ein Kuss, ein Gruss aus geheiligte Erde, wer weiß ob Sünde hier auch geheiligt werde, ob reine Neuschauherzen gereinigt, Gemachtes Leid gnädig, liebend beseitigt?!" — a kiss, a greeting from hallowed ground, musing whether sin too might be sanctified here, whether hearts are purified, and suffering mercifully removed. The card is addressed to Wien III, Yeusaugasse 9/12, postmarked Zürich 23 May 1954, and bears two Swiss Helvetia 10-centime stamps.