Currier & Ive's "Pilgrims to Lourdes" Holy Card – Healing Prayer – pack of 10/100/1000 #067

4.25x2.75" Holy Card. Card stock. Matt finish. Good quality.

Currier & Ive's were so good at what they did that their lithographs helped define the culture of the 19th Century. Even today, their cozy Victorian Christmas scenes are still popular and iconic, depicing happy people of that era ice-skating or getting Christmas trees, or doing other typical things, the men wearing stove-pipe-hats and the women puffy, bustly dresses.

This beautiful scene of Pilgrams at the Grotto in Lourdes takes us back, but also signals the normalacy of Faith in those times. This lithograph was done not many years after the actual appearance of Mary, the Mother of God, to the poor shepherd girl Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. People were getting healed there. People are still getting healed there today. The Grotto as a destination shrine has not lessened but grown in the years since. The water spigots are much more numerous now, stretching for a long way next to the shrine. Mary still obtains many favors from her son Jesus for the faithful.

This is also available as an art print in our shop.

We price our holy cards inexpensively so they can be used to spread the faith.

Thank you for your interest.

Sue and John

Be blessed, O most pure Virgin,

for having appeared in the Grotto of Lourdes,

saying to the child, St. Bernadette:

“I am the Immaculate Conception.”

O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy,

Health of the sick, Refuge of sinners, Comforter

of the afflicted, cast upon us a look of mercy.

Obtain for us, O loving Mother, the granting

of our request. (make your request)

Our Lady of Lourdes, Mother of Christ,

you had influence with your divine son

while upon earth. You have the same influence

now in Heaven. Pray for us; obtain for us

from your Divine Son our special requests

if it be within the Divine Will. Amen.

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.

 Saint Bernadette, pray for us.

Pilgrims at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. Published by Currier & Ives
125 Nassau St New York

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