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  • Ordination to the Minor Order of Ostiariorum (porter)

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of porter or doorkeeper, the first of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop gives a large key to the candidate for ordination, who kneels before him

  • Ordination to the Minor Order of Lector

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of lector or reader, the second of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop, seated on his throne, and the ordainees listen while another priest reads “verbum Dei,” or the word of God from a book, perhaps a lectionary o...