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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the seventh of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop blesses the altar with holy water he has taken in his hand from the aspersorium -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the third of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Upon reaching the door of the church, the bishop draws a cross on the lower part of the door with his crozier -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. After a priest makes a cross with ashes from the four corners of the church to the center. The bishop then draws with his crozier the Greek alphabet along the arm of the cross beginning at the angl... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Reaching the door of the church, the bishop knocks on the door with his crozier and asks to be admitted with the words of Psalm 24: “Let the king of glory enter.” A deacon inside the church asks: “... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the twelfth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop, seated on a throne before the doors of the church, gives a brief sermon to the assistant priests and the people gathered there -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the eleventh of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop and the other priests march in procession. The bishop is under a canopy carrying the stone containing relics under a cloth. This stone will eventually be set into the altar and will co... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the eighth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop blesses the new altar by sprinkling it with holy water taken from an aspersorium using a hyssop branch as an aspergillum -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the seventeenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop and two priest assistants mount a rolling staircase in order to bless twelve crosses fixed to the walls of the church -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the tenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop circles the church three times in all, blessing the interior with holy water from the aspersorium. Each time he begins the circle in a different direction: first to the right, then down t... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop consecrates the new altar with blessed water and holy oil. He makes the sign of the cross with the oil in the middle of the altar and in each of the four corners corresponding to the ...