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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates one aspect of the sacrament of priestly ordination. The bishop, seated on his throne, is ritually cutting the hair of the man to be ordained, that is, giving him tonsure. He cuts in four places, front, back, over the ears and the crown of the head
  • 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