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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 is the seventh of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. The presiding bishop and several of the auxiliary bishops place the crown on the king’s head as he kneels before them -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. In a series of prayers, the bishop blesses the various pieces of clothing that make up the habit of the nun. Here, the nuns kneel before the bishop, having taken off their secular clothing and donned pa... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. The women leave the cloister of their monastery dressed in secular clothing and enter the church for the ceremony, accompanied by older matrons. Here they are presented to the bishop by the archpriest at... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourth of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. Wearing a royal cloak, the king kneels before the presiding bishop, who anoints his hands with the oil of catechumens as the auxiliary bishops look on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the third of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. Now fully vested in the habit, the nuns kneel in a circle before the bishop -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The bishop blesses a military banner with water and then hands it to a soldier -
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: This is the first of two engravings illustrating the blessing of a new cross for a church. The bishop blesses the cross with incense and holy water