In Thanksgiving for His Sacrifice – Based on Beuron Art (Benedictine) Holy Card – Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality – Catholic Gift Catholic school Mary is shown both reading

Mary is shown both reading and sewing

This scene is beautiful and gives us a place to put our imaginations

Zélie and Louis Martin are the first Catholic couple to be declared Saints as a couple

of seeing how vast it is and feeling our place in it

as sacrifice to the Lord should be

In Thanksgiving for His Sacrifice – Based on Beuron Art (Benedictine) Holy Card – Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality – Catholic Gift Catholic school Mary is shown both readingMary holds the body of her crucified son, in a style lie Michaelangelo's Pieta. The colors of this 19th Century holy card print are muted and grave. It was done by the monks at the Beuron Abbey in Germany, an enormous Benedictine outpost that developed its own art style as a counterpoint to secular art of the time. The composition is aligned with primary shapes, circles and pyramids, to give it a formal calm, almost a Platonic aspect. If you look at