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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Benediction
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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 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: The bishop blesses a military banner with water and then hands it to a soldier -
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 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: This engraving is the last of six illustrating the blessing of a cemetery. The bishop makes the sign of the cross with the thurible before the center wooden cross -
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