Editing Holy card (section)

=== Lithography ===
The invention of [[chromolithography]] made it possible to reproduce coloured images cheaply, leading to a much broader circulation of the cards. An early centre of their manufacture was in the environs of the [[Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris|Church of St Sulpice]] in Paris; the lithographed images made there were done in delicate [[pastel]] colours, and proved extremely influential on later designs.

[[Belgium]] and Germany also became centres of the manufacture of holy cards, as did [[Italy]] in the twentieth century. Catholic printing houses (such as [[Bayard Presse|Maison de la Bonne Presse]] in France and [[Ars Sacra]] in Germany) produced large numbers of cards, and often a single design was printed by different companies in different countries.