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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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifth of six illustrating the blessing of a cemetery. The bishop does the same thing at the four outer crosses as he had done at the center. He blesses each cross with incense from the thurible and then places a lit candle at the top of the vertical post and two more candl... -
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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The priestly vestments for use in a new church are laid out on a table. The bishop blesses all of them at once -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the seventh of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. As the nuns wearing their crowns of leaves kneel before him, the bishops declares anyone anathema who would try to lead them away from the banner of chastity -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the sixth of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. The bishop places a crown of leaves, symbolizing the excellence of virginity, on the head of each nun as she kneels before him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourth of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. Seated on his throne before the altar, the bishop asks the women if they will persist in holy virginity. When they answer that they will, he places a second veil over the head of each nun as she kneels b...