Glowing with hand-tinted color, this early twentieth-century devotional postcard from Filipov (German: Filippsdorf) in northern Bohemia depicts the renowned pilgrimage church of Our Lady of Filippsdorf, its twin neo-Gothic spires piercing a pale sky while above them — in a striking artistic flourish — a radiant crowned Virgin Mary stands upon clouds in golden glory, blessing the faithful below. The village of Filipov was one of Bohemia's most famous Catholic pilgrimage sites after a reported Marian apparition in 1866, drawing tens of thousands of pilgrims annually by the turn of the century. The reverse bears a 5-Heller Austro-Hungarian Kaiser Franz Joseph stamp — the green 1908 jubilee issue — and was mailed from Georgsdorf (likely Jiřetín pod Jedlovou, near Filipov) to a woman named Hermine in Röschitz, Lower Austria, with a dense German-script message dated 25/5 [191?]. The publisher was Carl Rössler of Neugersdorf (Saxony/Bohemia border), a prolific regional postcard house.