Going over to my grandparent’s house as a child I always liked to take a look through my Grandmother’s old Roman Missal. The book itself was filled with remarkable drawings of the (as I recall) pen & ink or wood-cut variety. I rather liked that as a child. I still like that today.
But placed throughout the missal as bookmarks of sorts were holy cards that I found beautiful and fascinating. Most of them were with prayers on the back to Our Lady or the saint depicted… Some were from funerals, with prayers to be offered for those who had passed.
Sacherine? Sure.Piously over-devotional (POD)? Of course.
Fun to trade like baseball cards? (I’ll trade you a Saint Boniface with his ax for a Santo Niño de Cebu!)? Maybe…
Beautiful momentos of our Catholic heritage and reminders that we have friends where it counts? Absolutely.
I dig it the most!
So I give you Holy Cards for your Inspiration. A simply well done beautiful blog that has an amazing array of beautiful old holy cards. You can spend a few hours going through the beautiful collection of images.
And when you find some nice ones, pick up a few. You never know whose grandchildren will one day appreciate them.
David Bennett
Jennifer
asimplesinner
Fr. J.
Chad Toney
Jorge Flores
Jonathan B
carmelbennett
nicenehobbit
Jason S
jaybird68
papaz
January 3, 2008 at 9:38 pm
you should check out this blog devoted solely to holy cards. Very interesting…
http://thewindowshowsitall.blogspot.com/
Holy cards are going the way of the dinosaur. My gran told me when she was in parochial school they gave them out as rewards for good grades.
January 3, 2008 at 10:33 pm
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That is the blog that I linked to…
January 3, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I made the link bigger so it did not disappear in the text…
January 6, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Thank you for featuring my blog. It is such a pleasure for me to share these cards with you. Hope you continue to check it out…it does change daily….or, as long as HE allows.