Holy Cards

Holly cards offer comfort consolation, and encouragement to Catholics, who often carry these portable images of their favorite saints with them and use them in daily religious ritual. Given as remembrances at wakes and funerals, communions and confimiatiom, holy cards are also a widely popular-and highly collectible--form of folk art. This handsome volume, the only book available on the subject, is both a rich illustrated survey of this devotional art and a gallery of saints ownized thematically.

ISBN 9780810943384