Ms. Catherine Nelson-McDermott

This submission was the winning paper from the student essay challenge and was presented at the Association for Baha'i Studies. The story of Tahirih, the 17th Letter of the Living. In 1817—the same year in which Baha'u'llah was born—a girl named Fatimah Baraghani came into the world in Qazvín, Persia. She was called Zarrin Taj ("Crown of Gold") because of her outstanding intelligence.