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New! Lourdes Vintage Travel Poster – Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality
New! Lourdes Vintage Travel Poster – Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality
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This 20th Century travel poster lets us take our imaginations to visit—or revisit—Lourdes, France. This is a major Catholic pilgrimage site, being the place where Our Lady appeared to a dear little peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous. Mary appeared to her 18 times between February 11 and July 16, 1858. Crowds gathered then, as they still do today. Four to six million pilgrims from around the world visit the shrine each year. It is the most visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the world. (source: sacredsites.com)
It was at Lourdes where Mary declared to Bernadette, when the latter asked who she was, "I am the Immaculate Conception." Pope Pius IX declared the Immaculate Conception of Mary on December 8, 1854. He made this declaration in his papal encyclical, Ineffabilis Deus ("Ineffable God"). The illiterate Bernadette did not know of this doctrine at the time of her visions. (source: www.wordonfire.org)
With the cool colors of this poster, the blues and greens lending to its calm, it can make a nice meditation piece as well as a Catholic decoration. The clean, modern composition might help you untie some knots, or help you get ready for Mary to untie some. While you save for your trip, you can get a preview with some walking tour videos on YouTube of people walking to the shrine. One quick note on Bernadette, Sue was reading about her the other day, and she found a story about Bernadette, when she was in the convent, talking to some girls who were discerning their vocation. After she answered their questions, she said, "And now for a special treat, we will say one Hail Mary." :)
** IMPORTANT ** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER! There is a blank border around the image. Approximately 0.5" wide for 5x7, 1.3" for 8.5x11, 1.6" for 11x14, and 1.75" for 13x17 and 16x20. For the two poster sizes, 18x24 and 24x36, we use 0.5" borders. We do this because the ratio of the rectangle of the art almost never matches the rectangle of the paper, and if it did happen to match one size, it would not match the others. Most fine art printers do this because otherwise they’d have to crop the art or warp it to make it fit the paper. The border looks good. It gives the picture a faux matted appearance.
There is almost always a little more border either on the left-right sides, or the top-bottom, depending on whether the ratio of the art is wider or taller than the paper.
We make Archival Quality fine art prints:
– Acid-free paper
– Archival pigments
– Cardboard backer for sizes 11x14 and less.
– Above story of the art
– Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal-clear bag.
– Rated to last 200+ years without fading if kept dry and out of the direct sun.
Thanks for your interest!
+JMJ+
Sue & John
Lincoln, Nebraska
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“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.”
~ St. Pope John Paul II
Original image is out-of-copyright. Descriptive text and any image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson – Classic Catholic Art.
