Holy Card – Immaculate Heart of Mary with Dove – pack of 10/100/1000 – Restored Vintage Holy Card

We find this a dear and delicate image, its style in harmony with its subject, the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In Victorian holy cards, the dove, while often the Holy Spirit, is just as often a symbol for the viewer, the Christian faithful. So there we are, nestled close to our Mother.

For this old and long out-of-copyright card, we removed the staining and the yellowing of the background, keeping just a bit of the beige to preserve the look of the original paper texture and its antique flavor. We cropped this for modern tastes, featuring Mary's heart.

We have paired it with a traditional prayer that we like very much, and we hope you do too.

A new friend of ours said this about the image, "What struck my friend and myself about this particular image is that it depicts Mary's relationship to both her human and divine spouses and also to her motherhood of Jesus, and the suffering she endured alongside of him. It is just such a powerful, yet gentle and gorgeous image of her Heart."

We offer an art print of this lovely image at: https://www.etsy.com/listing/690159351/immaculate-heart-of-mary-based-on-a

Image Restoration © www.CatholicArtAndJewelry.com

You might also be interested in other sizes of this image, as well as other vintage Catholic art, elsewhere in this shop. Also, see original Catholic art and jewelry by me, Sue Kouma Johnson, in www.Etsy.com/shop/TreeOfHeaven

Thank you for your interest.

Sue and John