This engraving is the first of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. The women leave the cloister of their monastery dressed in secular clothing and enter the church for the ceremony, accompanied by older matrons. Here they are presented to the bishop by the archpriest at the beginning of the ceremony
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