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  • Machabei cross, protective cross. Both sides shown (Hebrew characters).
  • Suppenbrunnzer, dove of the Holy Spirit.
  • Fraiskette with 3 cases of charms
  • Pilgrim's token, a blue bottle showing a little chapel. Formerly contained St. Wolfgang's water. The bottle was covered with water-paint in order to show the design, when the lantern slide was made.
  • Necklet of the vertebrae of an adder hung with 3 medallions.
  • Walpurgis oil, amulet.
  • Zachariah's cross. A double cross, on one side side Zacharias and his blessing, on the other St. Benedict and the lettering of the cross of St. Benedict. Protection against the plague.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one patient has his leg dressed, another gets injected and two nurses roll a bandage. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Dyptych reliquary.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients receiving women visitors, but a black soldier has no visitor. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Copy of a 'wunder brief' said to be written by God.