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The Legend of the Christmas Rose, circa 1940

Subjects
Christmas & SantaReligious & Devotional Life
Card type
Linen
Front of The Legend of the Christmas Rose, circa 1940, Asheville Post Card Co., NC, USA, linen postcard
Front
Back of The Legend of the Christmas Rose, circa 1940, Asheville Post Card Co., NC, USA, linen postcard
Back

About this postcard

The upper portion of the card shows pink Christmas roses (Helleborus niger) with yellow stamens and glossy green leaves, together with sprigs of red berries, above a printed panel telling "The Legend of the Christmas Rose." The text recounts the apocryphal tale of a poor shepherdess at Bethlehem whose tears, shed because she had no gift for the Christ Child, became flowers that turned pink at the infant's touch. The Christmas rose is a winter-blooming hellebore traditionally associated with the Nativity story.

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PublisherAsheville Post Card Co.
G-200 The Legend of the Christmas Rose When Jesus was born in the little town of Bethlehem, there came Wise Men from the East bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. A little shepherdess, watching from afar, wept because she had no gift to offer the Christ Child. As her tears fell to the ground, flowers sprang up, which the child gathered and hastened to bring to the Infant. In adoration, she knelt at the crib, so Jesus could see the flowers, and when His blessed little hands touched the flowers, a delicate pink appeared in the center of each one. And so a flower that never bloomed before came into existence — the Christmas Rose. To this day, the Christmas Rose blooms more abun- dantly at Christmas Time than at any other season. Copyrighted © --- E-11971 POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE PUBLISHED BY ASHEVILLE POST CARD CO., ASHEVILLE, N. C.
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PublisherAsheville Post Card Co.
SeriesG-200
ConditionVery good
PublisherAsheville Post Card Co., Asheville, NC
NotesLinen-textured stock with visible crosshatch weave; no white border; printed legend text fills the lower half of the picture side; series number G-200 at upper left of the text panel. No postmark or cancellation. Undivided back with printed "POST CARD" heading and "PLACE STAMP HERE" box; linen-texture stock, publisher imprint printed vertically at center. Light soiling/toning on cream card stock.

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The Legend of the Christmas Rose, circa 1940, postcard, n.d.. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/the-legend-of-the-christmas-rose-circa-1940. Accessed October 25, 2026.