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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 three engravings illustrating the blessing of a new bell for a church. The bell is set up inside the church for the blessing. The bishop is seated while several Psalms are chanted. The implements needed for the ceremony are set out on a table -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This is the last of three engravings illustrating the blessing of a new bell for a church. The bishop places a thurible filled with incense under the bell and allows the smoke of the incense to rise and envelope the bell -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This is the second of three engravings illustrating the blessing of a new bell for a church. The bishop makes seven crosses with his right hand on the outside of the bell using holy oil -
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 fourth of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. While the builders look on, the bishop begins to lower the first stone of the new church building, marked with a cross, into a trough already dug in the ground -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. The bishop, seated under a tent, is speaking to the architect of the building while priests stand nearby with a processional cross and lit candles -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. The bishop, seated under a tent, is speaking to the architect of the building while priests stand nearby with a processional cross and lit candles -
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 third of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. A large cross has been fixed in the ground where the new church will stand. Mixing the salt he has just blessed in the water, the bishop sprinkles the blessed water on the ground a... -
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: 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: 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 engraving is the fifth of six illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen-consort. As she kneels before him, the presiding bishop offers the scepter to the newly crowned queen -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of six illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen-consort. The queen-elect kneels before the presiding bishop as he reads a prayer from a book, perhaps the pontificale -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourth of six illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen-consort. The bishop places the crown on the queen’s head as she kneels before him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the third of six illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen-consort. The queen-elect kneels before the presiding bishop while he anoints her hands with the oil of catechumens -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of six illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen-consort. The queen kneels and the king stands before the presiding bishop. Auxiliary bishops, priests, deacons and noblemen stand as witnesses -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of five illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen. The presiding bishop offers the scepter to the crowned queen as she kneels before him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of five illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen. The queen prostrates herself on a pillow before the altar as a litany is sung. The presiding bishop, auxiliary bishops and priests kneel -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the third of five illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen. The queen kneels before the presiding bishop while he anoints her hands and arms with the oil of catechumens -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of five illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen. The queen-elect sits between two auxiliary bishops in front of the presiding bishop. A group of noblemen and priests looks on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourth of five illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen. The presiding bishop places the crown on the queen’s head as she kneels before him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the third of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. The king prostrates himself before the altar on which rests his crown and scepter. The bishops, priests and deacons all kneel, while the choir sings a litany -
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 last of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. The newly crowned king genuflects before the presiding bishop and offers him gold coins. This is witnessed by the surrounding auxiliary bishops, priests and noblemen -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the sixth of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. After offering the sword to the king, the presiding bishop places the sword in the scabbard worn by the king -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the eighth of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. The crowned king, kneeling before the presiding bishop, accepts his scepter from the bishop’s hands -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the ninth of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. The presiding bishop rises from his throne and, with an auxiliary bishop, leads the king to a special throne set before the altar -
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 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 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 fifth of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. The king kneels before the presiding bishop. One of the priest-assistants brings the king’s sword from the altar and gives it to the bishop, who then presents it to the king -
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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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: Leading out a group of armed guards with torches, Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus with a kiss; Simon Peter stands with sword raised above one of the guards, who kneels on the ground with his lantern -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a bishop. The ceremony of bestowal of the pallium must take place in the new bishop’s own diocese. The pallium is a long woolen cloth embroidered with six small black crosses sent to the bishop by the pope. Here t... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The new abbot, wearing a mitre and holding a crozier, kneels before the presiding bishop in front of the altar for the bishop’s final blessing -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the sixth in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The new abbot kneels before the bishop, seated on his throne, and receives a copy of the Rule of his order from the bishop. His fellow monks stand in witness to this -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourth in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The abbot prostrates himself before the altar on which rests the book of the Gospels. The bishop and assistant abbots kneel before the altar. The community of monks stand as witnesses -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the eighth in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The presiding bishop places a mitre on the head of the new abbot who kneels before him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the third in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The new abbot, now wearing vestments and cope, kneels before the presiding bishop. The bishop presents the book of the Gospels to him and he touches it with his hands. The community of monks stand a... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the seventh in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. Seated on his throne, the presiding bishop offers a crozier to the new abbot while his community looks on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifth in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The abbot, wearing alb and chasuble, kneels before the presiding bishop who lays his hands on the abbot’s head to bless him -
Creator: Neill, William Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A discourse delivered by William Neill in the Sixth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Nov. 20, 1817, assigned by the Governor of Penn. As a day of public Thanksgiving. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An inside scene, four guards beat the seated and blindfolded Jesus Christ. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus Christ is bound to a pillar and beaten by three guards. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Towering above several men on their knees is the first beast with its ten horns and seven heads. A second beast has the appearance of a lamb. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The seven-headed beast (with crowns on the heads) emerges from the sea. Kneeling nearby are the saints, one with a sword, and a bull, and a cloud and lightenings are overhead. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the ascension of Jesus with the disciples looking on. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the disciples kneel, Jesus ascends into heaven, leaving only his footprints on the ground below -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The disciples are gathered at the mountain from which Jesus ascended -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Ark of the Covenant with the cherubim on top and poles at the sides -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Matthew stands with book and spear in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper left. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Simon, the Zealot stands with book in hand and his attribute the saw, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by being sawn in two. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the upper right -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Philip stands with a staff with a cross at its head, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by crucifixion. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper left. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Peter rests against a tree with a book and a key in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by crucifixion. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper left. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating Paul's letter to the Galatians, this engraving shows the apostle with his attribute the sword (here, two swords) passing along a letter to a messenger (note his equipment for his journey: hat, sword, and shoes). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Paul sits at a writing desk and distates to another man at another writing desk nearby and with pen and a book before him. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here the Apostle Paul appears with his attributes -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Matthias stands with book in hand and his attribute the axe, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by beheading. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is on the blade of the axe. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Matthew stands with a builder's square in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by decapitation. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is on the tree limb at the upper right. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Judas Thadeus stands with his attribute the club, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by beating. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the upper right. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here the Apostle John passes a letter to a messenger. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle John makes the sign of blessing, as he holds a cup with serpent. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper right. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle John works at his writing desk, with the eagle, his attribute nearby -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle John sits and gazes at a vision of the Madonna and child, as he writes in a book. His attribute, an eagle, stands nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle James Minor or James, the Less, stands with book in hand and his attribute the fuller's club, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by being thrown from a parapet and then beaten with a fuller's club. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the uppe... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle James the Greater stands with staff in hand and wearing his characteristic pilgrim's hat, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by beheading. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper right. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Bartholomew stands with book and knife in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper right. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Andrew stands alongside the diagonal cross with book in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martrydom by crucifixion. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is on the upper left end of the cross. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will conceive a child by the Holy Spirit -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will be the mother of Jesus -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Mary prays, the archangel Gabriel appears and the Holy Spirit descends on her in the form of a dove -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Saul kneels with scepter in hand, Samuel anoints him. Attendants stand nearby, one with a crown. A castle appears in the background. -
Creator: Hopkins, Asa Theodore Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A discourse delivered by Asa Theodore Hopkins on the day of the annual Thanksgiving, Dec. 8, 1842, before the united congregations of the First and Park Churches in Buffalo. -
Creator: Canfield, Sherman B. Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A discourse delivered by Sherman B. Canfield on the day of National Thanksgiving, Nov. 24, 1864. -
Creator: Wood, John Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A sermon preached by John Wood in the Congregational Church in Brantford, Ontario, on the American Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 1863. -
Creator: Krauth, Charles P. Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A discourse delivered by Charles P. Krauthin the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 1857. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Ezekiel's vision of the altar in the Temple. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Job, naked and covered with sores, sits before his wife. His possessions burn in the background, and the two men (left) who are departing may be messengers who had brought him news of the disasters befalling him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The 144,000. Angels hovering with cross and sword hold back the four winds of the earth -
Creator: Gannett, Ezra S. Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A discourse delivered by Ezra S. Gannett in the Federal-Street Meeting House in Boston on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1850. -
Creator: Bassett, George W. Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Thanksgiving Sermon preached by George W. Bassett at the Brick Church in West Bloomfield, Nov. 28, 1839. -
Creator: Withington, Leonard Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Thanksgiving Sermon preached by Leonard Withington in the First Church of Newbury, Mass., Nov. 28, 1850. -
Creator: Waugh, Joseph Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Thanksgiving sermon delivered by Joseph ..Waugh at Holliday's Cove, W.V -
Creator: Ward, J. T. Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Thanksgiving Day sermon preached by J.T. Ward. -
Creator: Thrall, Stephen Chipman Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A sermon preached by Stephen Chipman Thrall in Trinity Church, San Francisco, Thanksgiving Day. -
Creator: Clark, Frederick G. Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A sermon preached by Frederick G. Clark in the West Twenty-Third Street Presbyterian Church of New York, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1861. -
Creator: Walker, George Leon Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A sermon preached by George Leon Walker in the First Church of Christ, Hartford, Conn., Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1890. -
Creator: Wadsworth, Charles Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A sermon preached by Charles Wadsworth in the Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Sabbath Morning, Nov. 16, 1856, preceeding the annual Thanksgiving and a sermon preached on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 20, 1856. -
Creator: Dunning, H. Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A discourse delivered by H. Dunning in the First Constitutional Presbyterian Church of Baltimore on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1861. -
Creator: Thompson, M. L. P. Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A discourse preached by M.L.P. Thompson in the Second Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, on Thanksgiving Day, 1861.