Vintage Immaculate Heart of Mary with Doves – Honor Our Mother – Victorian Catholic Art Print – Based on Holy Card – Gift for Mothers Our Lady of Guadalupe Pope Francis declared Fr

Pope Francis declared Fr

The French title at the bottom translates

amidst th'encircling gloom

Pendant/medal of a photograph of Saint Therese and her sister Celine

it was deliberately made to inspire awe in the people who came inside

Vintage Immaculate Heart of Mary with Doves – Honor Our Mother – Victorian Catholic Art Print – Based on Holy Card – Gift for Mothers Our Lady of Guadalupe Pope Francis declared FrLet us honor our Mother! This lovely Immaculate Heart from the 19th Century is the Marian companion piece to "Source of Grace," which has the doves with Jesus's Sacred Heart. Both were printed by L. Turgis, a French lithographer active in Paris and New York in the late 1800s. The Victorians loved symbols. Doves were one of their favorites. There are many doves on 19th century holy cards, especially among the French. These two by Turgis are two of our