Holy cards offer comfort, consolation, and encouragement to Catholics, who often carry these portable images with them and use them in daily religious rituals. Given as remembrances at wakes and funerals, Communions, and confirmations, holy cards are also a widely popular--and highly collectible--form of folk art. This handsome volume is both a richly illustrated survey of this devotional art and a gallery of saints organized thematically along with brief biographies, attributes, and powers. Prophets and angels, disciples ...
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Holy cards offer comfort, consolation, and encouragement to Catholics, who often carry these portable images with them and use them in daily religious rituals. Given as remembrances at wakes and funerals, Communions, and confirmations, holy cards are also a widely popular--and highly collectible--form of folk art. This handsome volume is both a richly illustrated survey of this devotional art and a gallery of saints organized thematically along with brief biographies, attributes, and powers. Prophets and angels, disciples and evangelists, martyrs and hermits, visionaries and mystics are among the religious figures in Catholicism represented here--in exquisite depictions that are at times dramatic and disturbing, at times moving and comforting. This book explains the often enigmatic symbolism in these cards in a beautiful package that makes an ideal gift for first Communion, confirmation, or graduation.
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Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Small gift inscription written on first page. Price clipped on dust jacket.
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Good in good jacket. Octavo, white and biege cloth boards in dust jacket, book is ex-library, book and jacket are in good condition, jacket has edgewear, library sticker and is taped to book, book has library marks and card slip at the back flyleaf, 144pp.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Harry N. Abrams, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Fresh & very bright copy. Printed on thick matte paper. Crisp jacket has some ink offset to rear..
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New. 0810943387. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--144 pages; 110 illustrations in color. --with a bonus offer--
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