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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... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. The king kneels before the presiding bishop and places his hands on the book of the Gospels that is offered to him by the bishop. All the auxiliary bishops and priests look on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. The Bishop, seated on his throne, offers the breviary to the nuns. Now that they are professed as nuns, it will be their obligation to recite the Divine Office every day. The nuns touch the book with th... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. The king-elect is led by auxiliary bishops before the presiding bishop seated on a throne. The crown and scepter of the new king are resting on the altar -
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 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 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 new tabernacle sits on the altar as the bishop blesses it