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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. The bishop, seated under a tent, is speaking to the architect of the building while priests stand nearby with a processional cross and lit candles -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourth of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. While the builders look on, the bishop begins to lower the first stone of the new church building, marked with a cross, into a trough already dug in the ground -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the third of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. A large cross has been fixed in the ground where the new church will stand. Mixing the salt he has just blessed in the water, the bishop sprinkles the blessed water on the ground a... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the seventh of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop blesses the altar with holy water he has taken in his hand from the aspersorium -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The bishop is laying the cross on the chest of a soldier dressed in armor who is about to set out for the Holy Land. Other soldiers await their turn -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As one of his priest-assistants kneels before him holding the sword, the bishop blesses it with a prayer and holy water -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of three illustrating the public expulsion of penitents from the community of the church on Ash Wednesday. After blessing it with holy water, the bishop places a hairshirt onto the penitents -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The bishop blesses a suit of armor that is laid out on a table -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of four illustrating the consecration of a portable altar (or possibly a side altar). The bishop first blesses some of the ingredients that will be used during the ceremony of consecration: vessels containing water with salt, ashes and wine -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of four illustrating the consecration of a portable altar (or possibly a side altar). Taking some of the blessed water in his hand, the bishop makes the sign of the cross in the middle of the altar