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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: As the mother and father stand beside the baptismal font in a church, a Roman Catholic priest baptizes an infant -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The image of a Catholic priest addresses his congregation is used to illustrate the Decalog -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King Ahaz measures the altar in Damascus, as a priest sets fire to the wood and the lamb on the altar. In the background captives are led out of Damascus by the Assyrian soldiers of Tiglath-Pileser. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Roman Catholic priest administers last rites to a person in bed, as a family member is comforted nearby by a priest -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Joseph and Mary stand by as Jesus is circumcised by a priest in the Temple -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As a fire blazes on an altar outside with slaughtered lambs/sheep at its base, and priestly figures place loaves of bread on the altar, inside a group of men stand about a table and eat the Passover with their staffs in hand. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: John the Baptist is presented in the Temple and circumcized by a priest, as his mother Elizabeth looks on and his father Zechariah writes his name ("Johan") on a tablet -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Saul of Tarsus (Paul) receives letters from the high priest in Jerusalem that will allow him to arrest Christians in Damascus. As he travels to Damascus, Jesus appears in the heavens to Saul, who is prone on the ground and surrounded by the guards who accompanied him