Saints Unlimited

Internet Links to Religious Card Sites

Holy Card Communities & Blogs - Sites/Communities to view images and chat about holy cards.

Holy Cards for your Inspiration – Holy Card Blog by Micki Cesario with daily posting of new holy card images
PierLuigi Stradella's - Holy Card Community Web Site – Many, many images from Pierluigi's collection

Books & Exhibitions:

Holy Cards by Barbara Calamari & Sandra Dipasqua, photos of cards from Fr. Carrella's collection
Summer 2005 exhibit of Holy Cards at the John Paul II Cultutal Center
Visions of Mary - another new book by Calamari & Sandra Dipasqua featuring holy card images of Mary

Holy Card Sources Online:

Antique Holy Cards – Reproductions of older cards
Archangel Books - Online holy card sales

· Autom - source for bulk packages of cards

· Blue Cloud Abbey - Selection of Ade Bethune cards - no cards any longer?

Catholic Pages - Short list of Holy card sources
Catholicprayercards.org – free prayer cards
Catholic Shopper - personalized holy cards
Domestic Church - make your own cards!
ebay - Online Auction - This link is to a special query for religious cards on ebay
Franciscans - Online holy card sales
Fulton Sheen - free holy card
St. Gemma Galgani - Holy Card Request
Griffith's Traditional Catholic Goods! - classic traditional cards
Just West of Rome - Online holy card sales
McDevitts Religious Goods - Laminated holy cards by Fratelli Bonella
NG. Basevi - Italian publishers and wholesalers of holy cards
St. Teresa Benedicta - (Edith Stein) holy cards
Traditional Catholic Collectibles - Online holy card sales
Trinity Stores - Robert Lentz & William McNichols icons in bookmark, postcard & note card formats

Religious Trading & Game Cards

Holy Traders - Trading Cards of the Saints - E-mail for information…
Lord of History -Cards of 24 famous men and women from the arts, politics, exploration, literature and religious life throughout history.
Paradigm Trading Cards - trading cards of Pope John Paul II & Pope Benedict XVI

E-Mail Holy Card Sites

Catholic Postcards - Sponsored by Catholic-Pages.com
Catholic Links.com - list of multimedia Holy card sources
E-mail Postcards of St. Jude - Sponsored by St. Jude Shrine
Franciscan Cards - E-mail cards for many occasions

Icon Card & Print Sources

Andrei Rublev Museum - Icons
Bridge Building Images - Contemporary iconography
Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Beautiful, yet inexpensive icons in card format
Orthodox Byzantine Icons - Icons from the monks of St. Isaac Syria Skete
Monastery Icons - "Windows into Heaven" icon reproductions
Printery House - Assorted holy card pack
St. Vladmir Seminary - Icons
Trinity Stores - Robert Lentz & William McNichols, icons in bookmark, postcard & note card formats

Orthodox Iconography, Art

Andrey Rublev Museum
Christian Sanctuary Gallery (Paul Boyce)
Gallery of Byzantine Images
Orthodox Ministry ACCESS Icon Gallery - Icon clip art
OCF Icon Archive (In-line images) OCF Icon Archive (No in-line Images)
St.Andrei Rublev Icon Studio - featuring William McNichols Icons

Bible Cards

Berean Sunday School Cards - from the Material History of American Religion Project
Bible Card Collecting - One collector's story about collecting Antique Bible cards
Books Of The Bible Cards - from Pilkington & Sons
Books of the Bible - from Kid's Sunday School Place
Brent Devitt Collection - Samples of old and new cards from the Devitt collection
Computer Saints - Computerized tracts and cards

Holy Cards & Pictures Online

Brent Devitt Collection - Samples of old and new cards from the Devitt collection
Cartantica - Italian site with holy card images
Catholic Pictures - Index of pictures
David Shiesher's Holy Card Collection
HolyCard.com - Antique holy card reproductions on CD
Il Santino by Nicotin - Italian site with illustrated biographies of saints using holy card images
Industrial Motif Holy Cards - ca. 1940's-50's
Myrna's Holy Card Collection
Online Holy Cards - Provided by Traditio - Traditional Roman Catholic Internet Site
Ryan Memorial Library Collection - Special Collection of over 1000 holy cards
St. Charles Borromeo Church Site - Gallery of images
St. Joan Center - Cards and prints of St. Joan
St. Nicholas Center - online images of holy cards featuring good St. Nicholas
Saints of Carmel - Carmelite saints pictures
St. Therese Holy Card pics -
Saints Pics & Symbols in Art-
Webshots - downloadable images of Saints and the Holy Family

Catholic Art

Index of Christian Art - at Princeton University, $1,000/yr for access to thousands of images
Joseph's Catholic Webatorium - Old & New Testament In Pictures, Mary Pictures, Stations of the Cross
Art for the Catholic Restoration - Matthew Brooks has studied Catholic art and is working to establish the first school in the world devoted to the Sacred Arts.

Holy Card Information

Art History Club - short article on holy cards
Domestic Church - Fridge art idea of a saints shrine for kids that collect cards
Krause Gramer & Co. - this German holy card publisher's entire catalog index in PDF format
Library of Congress - Preservation techniques
Moonleaves - Patricia Walter, Artist/Poet, whose goal it is to find prayers for all the saint feast days of the calendar year. If you have prayers from the backs of cards you may be able to help her.

Collectors E-mail Addresses:

Brent Devitt - bjdevitt1@yahoo.com
Ann Ball - annalert@aol.com
Bonney Bielen - valkyrie@soncom.com
Mary Jacque Benner - mjbenner@qis.net
Tina Birkholm - tbirkholm@execulink.com
Julie Ann Brown - profjulie@aol.com
Micki Cesario - mjcesa1@excite.com
Fr. Eugene Carrella - Eujoe@aol.com
Michael J. Casmer - casmerm@prodigy.net
C. Robinson “Robin” Cooper - HORSEY102@aol.com
Brent Devitt - bjdevitt1@yahoo.com
Michael Ferg - sleepyme@bellsouth.net
Sr. Julie Green - amberlit@pressenter.com
Toni Howard - Toni2tom@aol.com
Terry Jones - tjones@vci.net
Kathy Markward - elvis@nettexas.net
Carlo Balma Mion - cbalmamion@yahoo.com
Dan Morrison - ephorate@yahoo.com
Werner Niederer - niederer-werner@freesurf.ch
James Petruzzeli - petruzze@ucsub.Colorado.EDU
Maggie Pringlemeir - DrMaggie@aol.com
Lynn David Recker - lyrecker@hotmail.com
Sharon Roberts - 00saroberts@bsuvc.bsu.edu
Linda Shah - lshah@digital.net
Antonio Silvio da Costa Jr., O. Carm.- psilvio@ibm.net
Pierluigi Stradella - pistrade@tiscalinet.it
Jeffrey Zarb - vicjeff@camline.net.mt

For more detailed collector information go to Contacts

Saints Links

Ann Ball - Author of numerous articles and books about saints - samples online
Bollandists Hagiography Page - Society of Hagiographers (those who study the saints)
Flags of Saints
For All The Saints Index - Has the greatest number of saints bios of all sites, well researched link has changed
Fr. Pro Home Page - Cause for Sainthood
Fr. Miguel Pro - Cards of this Mexican martyr
Hagiographic Circle – The latest on saints and saints in the making
Lives of the Saints -
Miniature Stories of the Saints - Reprint of 1946 Fr. Dan Lord book for children
Patron Saint Index - Well indexed saints info, pictures and links
Saints Alive! - Saints relics page
Saints Biographies - Index of Saints hosted by St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Site
Saints Stories - Stories written about Patron Saints
Saint of the Day - by St. Anthony Messenger
St. Charles Borromeo Church Site - Patron Saints Index
The Young Saints Club - Sponsored by the Salesians, A club designed for youth

Misc.

BCW - Collector Supplies - card holders, plastic sleeves
Catholic Tradition & Theology of Statues and Paintings - Informative
EWTN Home Page of Catholic Links -
Marian Library at University of Dayton - Largest center of Marian devotion studies in the world
Online Anglican Resources - Biographical sketches of memorable Christians of the past
Popes - Comprehensive site on Popes
Society for the Preservation of Roman Catholic Heritage (SPORCH)