Typically the size of a slightly elongated playing card, with the image of a saint or the Virgin Mary on one side and a short prayer on the other, holy cards are a centuries-old church tradition.

sometimes with a prayer printed on the back. Ten years ago, the Oxnard resident and marketing professor at Santa Barbara City College found a set of 300 holy cards in a Palmdale antique shop.

Last summer, the center held a four-month display, "Holy Cards: Picturing Prayers," based on a 2004 book titled "Holy Cards." The cards "invoke a memory, a consolation, a prayer," Callahan said.

said Hess started a holy prayer card early in his priesthood, while doing hospital ministry. Kerr said he would visit the hospital and pray with the patients, using words that spontaneously came ...

A few people said there's just something about the prayer cards from wakes that is holy. They said they're never thrown out, and that they keep them stashed together in a drawer. One woman said ...

the Holy Spirit comforts us and strengthens our resolve. He affirms that we need Him and one another, assuring us that He hears every prayer—silent, spoken, or scribbled on a prayer card—and ...

Holy cards are a style of Catholic devotion that originated during ... Maddie O’Mahoney ’25 is a religious studies major and a student employee in the Marian Library. Prayer in Irish Gaelic (n.d.) ...