Blessing Collection (page 3)

Blessing the water in the country, there have been many natural springs that have been believed by members of the Orthodox Church to be miraculous Date: 1913

Japanese Scene - Having a new Baby blessed at a shrine
Japanese Scene - Having a new Baby blessed at a Shinto shrine Date: circa 1908

Disraeli / Reform / Critic
Puff at St Stephens Disraeli makes his fellow-MPs kneel and pray for blessing on the new Reform Bill, which had just received royal assent. Date: 17 August 1867

Blessing Horses, Siena
SIENA PALIO Before taking part in the annual race through the streets, competing horses are blessed in a church Date: 1893

Blessing Fishing Boats
Before the fishing fleet leaves Paimpoul, Bretagne, for the Iceland fisheries, the boats are blessed in an elaborate ceremony including a spectacular procession Date: 1895

Netherlands / Christianity
The coming of Christianity Date: 7th - 8th century

Japanese men carry a Shinto Mikoshi portable shrine. Date: 1932

Japanese children carry small Shinto Mikoshi portable shrine Date: 1932

Ulger or Ulgerius, Bishop of Angers, died 1149.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

WW1 - Eastern Front - Russian troops blessed by priest
WW1 - Eastern Front - Russian troops in the trenches blessed by an Orthodox priest, who distributed holy water and is accompanied by a holy ikon. Date: 1917

WW1 - Eastern Front - Church service at Red Square, Moscow to blessRussian soldiers serving at the front. Date: circa 1917

Robert de Eglesfield, English clergyman
Robert de Eglesfield (c.1295-1349), English clergyman, founder of Queens College Oxford in 1341 and chaplain to Queen Philippa of Hainault. Date: circa 1340s

Archbishop blessing the Colours, Malta
The Archbishop of Malta blessing the Colours of Maltese scouts

Canterbury Festival Pageant
The first Archbishop of Canterbury, St Augustine, blessing King Ethelbert and his queen in a scene from the Canterbury Festival Pageant

Pius Ix, Blessing
POPE PIUS IX with his autograph Date: REIGNED 1846 - 1878

Blessing the Sick at Lourdes, France
Benediction du Tres-Saint Sacrament des Malades - the Blessing of the Very Holy Sacrament of the Sick, outside the Rosary Basilica, Lourdes. Date: 1910s

Spain (1832). Madrid. Church of the Royal Monastery of San Jer󮩭 o in Madrid. Blessing act of the flags that H.M. The Queen gave to the different corps of the army (28th June 1832)

ECUADOR. Quito. Cathedral. Chapter house. Portrait of the bishop Blas Manuel Sobrino

GALLEGO, Fernando (1440-1507). Christ Giving his Blessing. Christ seated in a throne, surrounded by the Tetramorph

Basilica of St Jesus Christ Blessing. Decoration of the atrium. Noah sends a carrier pigeon from the ark at the end of the flood

VOLTAIRE, Franzois-Marie Arouet, also known as (1694-1778)
VOLTAIRE, Franois-Marie Arouet, also known as (1694-1778). Voltaire blessing Franklins grandson. Etching

RIBERA, JOS (1588-1652). ISaC
RIBERA, Jos (1588-1652). Isaac Blessing Jacob. Isaac on the bed, blind, touches Jacobs arm, which is covered with a kid skin in

Blaise Blesses Deer
Deer are very attracted to Saint Blaise, bishop of Sebaste : when he comes near they gather round, asking him to bless them as this protects them from predators. Date: circa 300

Jesus blessing the children. Date c1891 Jun. 11

Christ blessing little children. Date c1864 Jan 21

Spousal Recognition
With tilted heads, the Venerable Brother gives the married couple the masonic blessing, whilst music, often represented by a small organ, plays a tune for the occasion. Date: 1890s

Royal Wedding 1934 - The Glow of the Golden Altar
An aspect of the ceremony in Westminster Abbey during the marriage of Prince George, Duke of Kent to Princess Marina of Greece

Hope Well Dressing
A Well Dressing at Hope, Derbyshire, England, which takes place on Acension Day. This ceremony is a relic of the old pagan custom of blessing wells for water. Date: 1950s

Blessing a Swiss Chapel
Blessing a new chapel in the village of Appenzell Canton, Switzerland. Our picture shows the clergy in their 18th century costumes, with a police escort. Date: 1930s

St Augustine and the English
St Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory as a missionary to England. He went first to King Ethelbert (because his French wife Bertha was already a Christian). Date: Circa 600 AD

The marriage of Emperor Napoleon III
Emperor Napoleon III (1808-1873) neels with Empress Eugenie(1826-1920) for a blessing during their marriage ceremony in Paris

Regimental ceremony, blessing the flags
Soldiers and clergymen gather in the open air for a regimental ceremony, blessing the flags, otherwise known as blessing the colours

Argentina - Ranch (Estancia)
A Priest gives Holy Communion in the open air, at a Ranch (Estancia) in Argentina owned by Cynalewski in the Province of Buenos Aires

A Priest sings at the end of mass
A priest sings Domine, Salvam fac Rempublicam, the response which can be used at the end of Mass, expressing the prayer of blessing for the Church and State

Blessing the charging troops: A Russian priest on the field
From a painting by Frederic De Haenen

Napoleon and Flags
He presides over a blessing of flags

Heinrich II at Verdun
The newly-elected Holy Roman emperor receives an ecclesiastical blessing at the cloister of saint Vitus, to whom Germans have a special devotion

The blessing of the Rouen and Harve railway
Benediction of the railway in preparation of the opening of the Rouen and Havre railway

Consecrating Swords
Consecration of swords among the ancient Celts

British Red Cross hospital
A sketch of a blessing taking place in a British Red Cross hospital. The floating hospital, positioned on the Danube at Giurgevo was essential in treating the casualties in the Russo-Turkish war

Clipping the Yews
Clipping the famous yew trees at Painswick Church, Gloucestershire, England. Here the band, congregation and procession walk around the churchyard boundary

Greek Ortho Priests 1983
Three Greek Orthodox priests officiating in a service on the departure of the sponge fishermen, at Kalymnos, Greece

Saint Peter (Mosaic)
Church and Empire are depicted as equal partners, under the aegis of Saint Peter (in other words, the Pope has the last word...)

Jacobs Dirty Trick
Jacob pretends to be Esau and tricks their father Isaac into giving him his blessing

Samuel Dedicated
Hannah, wife of Elkanah, takes her young son Samuel to the temple at Shiloh, where she entrusts him to the care of the chief priest, Eli, whose position he will inherit

Crystal Palace Opened
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the inauguration ceremony; view from the South West Gallery as the Archbishop offers up a prayer for Divine blessing upon the objects

Conversion / Tryggvesson
During his Viking wanderings Olaf Tryggvesson is converted by a hermit on the Isles of Scilly who predicts that he will become a great King

Mozart / Nozze / Liebig 5
(The Marriage of Figaro) Figaro and Susanna are married with the reluctant blessing of the Count

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