Search Constraints
Filtering by:
Contributing Institution
Pitts Theology Library
Remove constraint Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
Search Results
-
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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of two illustrating the sacrament of confirmation. Seated on his throne and with attendant priests at his side, the bishop confirms a child whose sponsor kneels behind him. Another child and sponsor stand before a scribe who is writing the child’s name (?) in a ledger -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the sixth of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. The bishop takes two vessels, one containing holy oil and one the chrism blessed each year during Holy Week, and pours them onto the altar -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: God creates Eve from the side of the sleeping Adam in the Garden of Eden -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Moses receives the tablets of the law from God on Mount Sinai, as the Israelites dance before the golden calf -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is crucified as Mary and John look on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The coat of arms for Bishop Sidonius (Michael Helding, d. 1561) of Merseburg (1550-1561). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will conceive a child by the Holy Spirit -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image of Jesus teaching his disciples to pray appears in "Brevis institutio" (1549), or "Brief Instruction in Catholic piety," based on Michael Helding's sermons in the Mainz cathedral from 1542-1544 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the victorious Christ appears in the heavens, angels separate the saved from the lost, and the latter are hurried into the gaping mouth of Hell