Guardian Angel – by Louis Janmot – Beautiful Catholic Artwork – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality

For years we’ve looked for the right guardian angel picture. The problem with most of the ones we’ve seen is they show an angel hovering over some children about to do something disastrous—like fall off a rickety bridge into a raging torrent. The angel, who looks like a sugar plum fairy, is reaching in, ready to catch them. Of course, it’s good to help strengthen a child’s faith, but we think that kind of picture gives them the wrong idea of how angels work, and could weaken their faith. When harm comes in the child’s life—as it always does—what do we tell them? That they got a bad angel? That angels don’t work the way that picture said they did?This beautiful picture by Louis Jamot is a realistic and profound depiction of how angels actually work. A mother is holding a child and the angel is praying. While on a few, very rare occasions in our lifetime, we have felt the hand of our guardian angel intervene and keep us from calamity, we have no doubt that our angel has been with us the