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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 illustrates the blessing of a soldier/knight. The soldier kneels before the bishop who offers him a sword
  • 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: At the time of vespers on the Saturday before the Sunday on which a priest will be consecrated a bishop, he is questioned by at least three bishops in the presence of other priests
  • 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: This engraving is the first of two illustrating the proceedings at a diocesan synod. The bishop sits among the priests of the diocese, as the archdeacon stands in a pulpit and reads the decrees of the Council of Trent and the profession of faith. All who are present also make the profession of ...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first of three illustrating various rites for those under holy orders. When a priest engages in serious wrong-doing, he may be suspended by the bishop. After doing the prescibed penance, the priest undergoes a rite of reconciliation. Here the bishop is laying his hand on t...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second of two illustrating the proceedings at a diocesan synod. The bishop preaches to all those present at the synod, admonishing and exhorting them
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates one part of the rite of absolution for a priest who had been excommunicated. The one to be absolved kneels before the bishop who is seated outside of the church. The bishop holds a switch in his hand with which he beats the shoulders of the one to be absolved, while a...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates the rite of solemn excommunication. The bishop sits surrounded by twelve priests in a public place, each with a lit candle in his hand. The bishop then pronounces the anathema against the one to be excommunicated, after which all strike out their candles against the g...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the third of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Upon reaching the door of the church, the bishop draws a cross on the lower part of the door with his crozier
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fourth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. After a priest makes a cross with ashes from the four corners of the church to the center. The bishop then draws with his crozier the Greek alphabet along the arm of the cross beginning at the angl...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Reaching the door of the church, the bishop knocks on the door with his crozier and asks to be admitted with the words of Psalm 24: “Let the king of glory enter.” A deacon inside the church asks: “...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the twelfth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop, seated on a throne before the doors of the church, gives a brief sermon to the assistant priests and the people gathered there
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the eleventh of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop and the other priests march in procession. The bishop is under a canopy carrying the stone containing relics under a cloth. This stone will eventually be set into the altar and will co...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the eighth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop blesses the new altar by sprinkling it with holy water taken from an aspersorium using a hyssop branch as an aspergillum
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the seventeenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop and two priest assistants mount a rolling staircase in order to bless twelve crosses fixed to the walls of the church
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the tenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop circles the church three times in all, blessing the interior with holy water from the aspersorium. Each time he begins the circle in a different direction: first to the right, then down t...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fifteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop consecrates the new altar with blessed water and holy oil. He makes the sign of the cross with the oil in the middle of the altar and in each of the four corners corresponding to the ...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fourteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop consecrates the altar with incense, swinging the censer in the sign of the cross over its middle and four corners
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving depicts the bishop as he blesses the accoutrements of the altar and church, such as various vessels, a censer and cloths for the altar
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of exorcist, the third of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop, seated on his throne and surrounded by attendant priests, offers an ornate book (perhaps the book of exorcisms) to one of the ordainees. The tonsure o...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of porter or doorkeeper, the first of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop gives a large key to the candidate for ordination, who kneels before him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of lector or reader, the second of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop, seated on his throne, and the ordainees listen while another priest reads “verbum Dei,” or the word of God from a book, perhaps a lectionary o...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first in a series illustrating the various stages in the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood. The bishop is seated on his throne in front of the altar with attendant priests at his side. Four candidates for ordination kneel before him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second of two illustrating the sacrament of confirmation. Seated on his throne and with attendant priests at his side, the bishop confirms a child whose sponsor kneels behind him. Another child and sponsor stand before a scribe who is writing the child’s name (?) in a ledger
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the second of the three major orders: the diaconate, the sixth of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. Seated on his throne and with attendant priests at his side, the bishop offers a book to the ordainee kneeling before him. Each deacon is ...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the first of the three major orders: the subdiaconate, the fifth of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop, seated on his throne, offers a chalice and paten to the ordainee kneeling before him. Another priest, wearing a cope, offers...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates one aspect of ordination to the third of three major orders: priesthood, the seventh and last of a series of ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop, seated on his throne with attendant priests at his side, speaks to the ordainees kneeling before him wit...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates one aspect of ordination to the priesthood: the laying on of hands. The bishop stands and lays his hands in turn on the head of each man being ordained. The ordainees all kneel wearing the priestly vestments of alb and stole and carry the chasuble over one arm. In th...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of acolyte, the fourth of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. Seated on his throne and surrounded by attendant priests, the bishop offers a candle in an elaborate holder to the ordainee kneeling before him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates an aspect of the sacrament of priestly ordination. Seated on his throne, the bishop places an article of clothing (the superpelliceum) over the shoulders of the ordainee, who kneels before him as attendant priests look on
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the last of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Once again, the bishop sanctifies the altar by making the sign of the cross on it with holy oil in several places, including the top and foundation of the altar
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the thirteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. A hole has been cut in the new altar into which the altar stone, containing relics of several saints, will be placed. The bishop consecrates the angles of the depression with holy oil and then ...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the ninth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop goes around the interior of the church blessing it with holy water which he takes from the aspersorium with a branch of hyssop that he uses as an aspergillum
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop first circles the new church on the outside, sprinkling holy water as he goes
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fifth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop stands before a table on which stand vessels filled with salt, ashes and water and blesses them
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the last of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. Having placed the stone in the ground, the bishop sprinkles the area with the blessed water once again
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. Standing in the place where the church will be built, the bishop blesses salt and water
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates the reconciliation of an apostate, schismatic or heretic. The bishop sits outside the church. The heretic kneels before him, while the bishop asks him a series of questions, such as “Do you believe in the twelve articles of the faith?” To these the heretic must reply,...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the last of three illustrating various rites for those under holy orders. This engraving illustrates the rite of degradation. The bishop who is being degraded, kneels before the presiding bishop, who announces to all present the cause of his fellow bishop being removed from off...