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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 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: 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... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of five illustrating the reconcilation of pentitents to the Church on Holy Thursday. The bishop prays over the penitents