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Clergy


Clergy: Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and Priests



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An abbot. Stained glass window
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An abbot. Stained glass window

Group of Blessed, from the Last Judgement tympanon, Sainte-Foy Church, Conques.
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Group of Blessed, from the Last Judgement tympanon, Sainte-Foy Church, Conqu...

The library at the Dominican monastery San Marco, 1448
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The library at the Dominican monastery San Marco, 1448

A martyred bishop holding his head in his hand. From the circular altar in the nave of Vierzehnheiligen church, named after the fourteen saints who are "helpers in need", 1763
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A martyred bishop holding his head in his hand. From the circular altar in the...

Saint Augustine, Father of the Church, with staff, heart and mitre.
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Saint Augustine, Father of the Church, with staff, heart and mitre.

"Trionfo della Morte" fresco (14th). Detail: The soul leaves the dead bishop.
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"Trionfo della Morte" fresco (14th). Detail: The soul leaves...

"Trionfo della Morte" fresco (14th). The soul leaves the dead bishop. Sinopie of 16-01-01/8
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"Trionfo della Morte" fresco (14th). The soul leaves the dead...

Sinopia (underdrawing) showing an angel of death and a bishop."Trionfo della Morte", fresco, 14th.
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Sinopia (underdrawing) showing an angel of death and a bishop."Trionfo della Mo...

Emperor Death surrounded by skeleton courtiers with long wigs;a monk lies in state;skeletons bring coffin and shroud;time(chronos)flies to the right.Forground left Pope and cardinals,right a king and his army. "Rotelbuch"in which deaths of monks were entered.1719
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Emperor Death surrounded by skeleton courtiers with long wigs;a monk lies in...

Tomb of Bishop Beckington, Secretary to King Henry VI Tudor. The English double-tombs show a life-like statue of the defunct on top and a body in decomposition below. (1451)
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Tomb of Bishop Beckington, Secretary to King Henry VI Tudor. The Engl...

King Mark sentences Isolde to the ordeal by fire.As the bishop holds the red-hot iron,a beggar,Tristram in dis- guise,helps Isolde from the boat.Denying that she has ever been in the arms of another man but this beggar's, Isolde avoids lying and is not burnt by the hot iron.
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King Mark sentences Isolde to the ordeal by fire.As the bishop holds the red-hot...

Murals in the church of the Benedictine monastery of Lambach,Upper Austria,1090.Perhaps a scene from the fight between Emperor and Pope about the nomination of bishops:Henry IV with crown and orb,three times excommunicated by papal anathema;a threatening angel.
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Murals in the church of the Benedictine monastery of Lambach,Upper Austria,10...