Holy Cards
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Holy cards offer comfort, consolation, and encour-agement 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1419702270
ISBN13:9781419702273
Release Date:March 2012
Publisher:ABRAMS
Length:144 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"
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Art Arts, Music & Photography Catholicism Religion Religion & Spirituality Religious SaintsCustomer Reviews
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