Blessing Collection (page 4)

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

Penny Post Envelope
A contemporary Penny Postage envelope - Britain ! Bestow this Boon and Be in Blessing Blest, Ocean Penny Postage will link all Lands with thee in Trade and Peace

Cohanim Blessing People
the Jews in New York Cohanim Blessing the People

Blessing Animals, Bulgar
An Orthodox priest blesses the livestock on a Bulgarian farm

Churchs Blessing
The Army prepares to go to war - with the blessing of the Church

Jacob Tricks Isaac
Jacob puts a goatskin on his head and deceives his father Isaac into giving him his blessing instead of Esau, not really a very brotherly thing to do

Bigamous Wife
A bigamous woman with two husbands (one in jail) and one at her side. She seemingly has the blessing of the church

Blessing the Sick
Benediction du Tres-Saint Sacrament des Malades - the Blessing of the Very Holy Sacrament of the Sick, outside the Rosary

Pope Leo XIII Cartoon
POPE LEO XIII A somewhat disrespectful portrayal

Church Bless Emigrants
Emigrants leave their village loading a wagon with their possessions, while the Church bestows its blessing. Date: 1851

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