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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 first of six illustrating the blessing of a cemetery. Five crosses stand in the cemetery about to be consecrated: one in the center and one at the edge of the cemetery in the front, back and two sides of the cross in the center. Each has a small stand at its foot containing... -
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... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the seventh of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. Five special candles made in the form of a cross are placed on the altar, in the middle and in the four corners. The bishop lights the four tips...