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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fourteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop consecrates the altar with incense, swinging the censer in the sign of the cross over its middle and four corners
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the last of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Once again, the bishop sanctifies the altar by making the sign of the cross on it with holy oil in several places, including the top and foundation of the altar
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the thirteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. A hole has been cut in the new altar into which the altar stone, containing relics of several saints, will be placed. The bishop consecrates the angles of the depression with holy oil and then ...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the ninth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop goes around the interior of the church blessing it with holy water which he takes from the aspersorium with a branch of hyssop that he uses as an aspergillum
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop first circles the new church on the outside, sprinkling holy water as he goes
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fifth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop stands before a table on which stand vessels filled with salt, ashes and water and blesses them