Skip to Content

Search Results

Search Constraints

Filtering by: Contributing Institution Pitts Theology Library Remove constraint Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Subject Bishop Remove constraint Subject: Bishop

Search Results

  • 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: Pope Alexander III receives the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first of two illustrating the sacrament of confirmation. The bishop, with attendant priests at his side, is making the sign of the cross with holy oil on the forehead of the boy being confirmed. The child’s sponsor looks on with his arm around the child
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the third in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop: the prostration before the altar. The bishop-elect lies fully prostrate on the floor before the altar, while the chief consecrating bishop and his assistant bishops kneel and recite a litany.
  • 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 third of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. The bishop circles the altar, sprinkling it with water, the ashes and the blessed wine. For this purpose, he uses sprigs of the herb hyssop that h...
  • 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 eighth of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. At the conclusion of the Offertory, the virgins kneel before the bishop with lighted candles in their hands
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fifth of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. The bishop places a ring on the right hand of each nun, telling her that she is now the spouse of Jesus Christ
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the third of four illustrating the consecration of a portable altar (or possibly a side altar). Using the blessed water, the bishop makes the sign of the cross in the four corners of the new altar
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second of six illustrating the blessing of a cemetery. Seated on his throne and holding his crozier, the bishop watches as a man lights the middle candle at the base of one of the five crosses erected in the cemetery
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The bishop holds the chalice in his hand and blesses it, as an attendant priest stands nearby holding a small tray with two cruets
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The new tabernacle sits on the altar as the bishop blesses it
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first of three illustrating the public expulsion of penitents from the community of the church on Ash Wednesday. These are people who have committed grave crimes and on whom a solemn penance has been imposed. They come before the bishop dressed in poor clothing, barefoot a...