Votive offerings and marble church plates offering thanks: includes offerings shaped like body parts, hearts and an agnus dei image. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?).

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1920
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578401i
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Votive offerings and marble church plates offering thanks: includes offerings shaped like body parts, hearts and an agnus dei image. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?). Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1920

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 11.4 x 17.9 cm

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Votive offerings and church marble plates - thanksgivings for recovery or prayers answered. a. Mother-of-pearl offering for desired cure. b. metal heart offering for cure. c. Agnus-Dei, XVIIth century - with figures on each side, surrounded with relics. Source: Mortillet collection [...] Lettering in ink on photograph provides key for describing offerings on right-hand side

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Wellcome Collection 578401i

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