Torrent of Graces – St. Padre Pio's Inspired Prayer – Holy Card – pack of 10/100/1000 – Restored Vintage Holy Card #087

Bright and colorful, this joyous card, The Torrent of Graces, is one of our favorites from the Louis Turgis company. It’s an early lithograph, we would guess about 1850. It pictures the flood of graces that come from Jesus’s Sacred Heart constantly to all of us. Devotion to the Sacred Heart because very popular in France in the mid-1800s, which was overall a very pious period in history.

The beautiful prayer on the back is a daily prayer of St. Padre Pio, given to him by Jesus in 1963. The Imprimatur was given by Bishop Marcario. We have not yet found the biographical source material for this, but the information as we've stated it is all over the interent, and the prayer seems good and true to us. Imprimatur means "let it be printed," as the church official who has granted it discerns nothing contrary to the faith.

Image Restoration © www.CatholicArtAndJewelry.com

You might also be interested in our art print of this image, https://www.etsy.com/listing/1026844278/the-holy-mass-4-sizes-based-on-a-vintage

Thank you for your interest.

Sue and John

O Jesus, through the abundance

of Thy love, and in order to overcome

our hardheartedness, Thou poorest out

torrents of Thy Graces over those who

reflect on Thy most Sacred Sorrow in the

Garden of Gethsemane, and who spread

devotion to it. I pray Thee, move my soul

and my heart to think often, at least once a

day, of Thy most bitter Agony in

the Garden of Gethsemane, in order to

communicate with Thee and to be united

to Thee more closely as possible.

Amen.

Prayer as given to St. Pio – San Giovannie Rotondo – 1965 + Imprimatur: Marcario, Bishop.
Front: Louis Turgis, Paris, c. 1860