Antique & Vintage Postcards

The door-side view of Cardinal Innitzer's humble childhood bedroom in Weipert, Bohemia anchors this second card in the rare devotional set — a framed Madonna and Child painting hangs above the iron bedstead draped in white lace, while an ornate illuminated certificate bearing the Cardinal's name occupies a gilded frame at right, and a small crucifix punctuates the whitewashed wall between them; a tall dark wardrobe at left holds a row of old books, grounding the sacred imagery in the quiet reality of a modest working-class Czech home. Together with its companion (Fensterseite view), this card documents a pilgrimage-ready shrine created around the birthplace of Dr. Theodor Innitzer after his elevation to Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna — a man who would soon face one of modern Catholicism's most agonizing moral tests during the Nazi annexation of Austria.