This holy card comes from an antique Christmas holy card depicting the angels visiting the Christ Child on Christmas night, bringing a basket of flowers to strew over Him.  The caption below the image reads:  "Come and learn of Him the secret of happiness and the way of Eternal life."  The back is plain.  Perfect for slipping in Christmas cards, adding to gifts, displaying on the family altar during the Christmas season, or keeping in your devotional books.

Dimensions:  2.5" x 4.625", printed on white cardstock

Image source:  Chant Art

Two angels kneel beside the manger of the Infant Jesus against a snowy backdrop with the Star of Bethlehem overhead in this small Christmas holy card, taken from an antique lace-edged holy card.  The caption in the image reads:  "Jesus is the friend of innoncence.  Bring Him therefore a pure heart."  The back is plain.  Perfect for slipping in Christmas cards, adding to gifts, displaying on the family altar during the Christmas season, or keeping in your devotional books. 

Dimensions:  2.5" x 3.75", printed on white cardstock

Image source:  Chant Art

This Christmas holy card is from a beautiful old French image showing the Holy Family in the stable at Bethlehem and the shepherds paying their respects to the Infant King.  The caption below the picture reads:  "Paix sur la terre aux hommes de bonne volonté" -- Peace on earth to men of good will.  The back is plain.  Perfect for slipping in Christmas cards, adding to gifts, displaying on the family altar during the Christmas season, or keeping in your devotional books. 

Dimensions:  2.75" x 4.625", printed on white cardstock

Image source:  Chant Art 

St. Robert Southwell (1561-1595) was an English Jesuit and secret missionary to his homeland, where, like so many of his fellow Catholics during the reign of Elizabeth I, he won the crown of martrydom.  He was also an accomplished and much-respected poet.  The Burning Babe (published in 1595) is a poem he wrote for Christmas about the Christ Child on fire with love to save the souls of mankind.  It is printed in its entirety on the front and back of this holy card, along with a vintage image of the Infant Jesus, seated in the manger and holding a crown of thorns, while wreaths of roses lie at His feet.  A beautiful poem and a beautiful picture to celebrate Christmas.

An excerpt:  My faultless breast the furnace is,

The fuel, wounding thorns;

Love is the fire and sighs the smoke,

The ashes, shame and scorns.

Dimensions: 3.25" x 5", printed on white cardstock

Image source:  Chant Art

The front of this holy card displays an antique image of the Holy Family and the shepherds kneeling around the manger on Christmas night.  The back has a Christmas blessing asking God to fill the recipient's life with joy, grace, hope, and peace.  This is a nice one to slip in a Christmas card or add to a Christmas gift!

Dimensions:  2.5" x 3.75", printed on white cardstock

Image source:  Chant Art

This Christmas holy card has a colorful vintage image, done in the style of an illumination, showing a crowd of angels celebrating around the crib of the Christ Child on Christmas night.  The caption at the bottom of the image reads:  "Et verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis....Alleluia" -- And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us....Alleluia.  The back is plain.  Perfect for slipping in Christmas cards, adding to gifts, displaying on the family altar during the Christmas season, or keeping in your devotional books. 

Dimensions:  2.5" x 3.75", printed on white cardstock

Image source:  Chant Art

An angel brings two children to see the Christ Child sitting up in His manger in front of a Christmas tree in this beautiful old image taken from an antique lace-edged holy card.  The text says 'Gloria in excelsis Deo' in a fancy script in the upper right hand corner of the picture.  The back is plain.  Perfect for slipping in Christmas cards, adding to gifts, displaying on the family altar during the Christmas season, or keeping in your devotional books. 

Dimensions:  2.5" x 3.75", printed on white cardstock

Image source:  Chant Art

This Christmas holy card features a sepia tone picture of the shepherds coming to the stable at Bethlehem to visit the Holy Babe, who sits in Mary's lap, while St. Joseph looks on.  The back is plain.  Perfect for slipping in Christmas cards, adding to gifts, displaying on the family altar during the Christmas season, or keeping in your devotional books. 

Dimensions:  2.5" x 3.75", printed on white cardstock

Image source:  Chant Art

This Christmas holy card is taken from an antique lithograph showing the entire Nativity scene inside a fancy border.  The Holy Family and the shepherds gather round, while the animals look on in the background and two angels sing 'Gloria in excelsis Deo' overhead.  The back is plain.  Perfect for slipping in Christmas cards, adding to gifts, displaying on the family altar during the Christmas season, or keeping in your devotional books. 

Dimensions:  2.625" x 3.625", printed on white cardstock

Image source:  Chant Art

Saint Ildephonsus Holy Card

This holy card features the artwork of El Greco with highlights of his life and the prayer he composed to the Blessed Virgin Mary on the back.

During his life in the 7th century, Saint Ildephonsus, a pious Benedictine abbot, went on to be elected Archbishop of Toledo, much to the joy of the clergy and people there.  He composed a prayer to Our Lady, who he greatly loved, to be recited daily.  When a falsehood sprang up in his diocese belittling the Perpetual Virginity of the Mother of God, he soundly defeated that heresy with a treatise as well as warning his flock against the falsehood.

Printed on white cardstock, 3" x 5"