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Faith Healing

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Healing - Religious aspects

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Images from the collections

Images about Faith Healing

29 images from works
  • Christ heals the dumb and blind demoniac. Etching.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving.
  • An altar to which a paralysed man and an insane man have been brought for a cure. Etching by J. Le Pautre, 16--.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Coloured engraving.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi holding a crucifix before a sick woman brought to him to be cured. Etching by J.B.M. Pierre.
  • Christ heals two possessed men; in the background swine leap off a cliff. Engraving.
  • Christ heals a demoniac; a demon is expelled into the air. Etching by J.D. de Montalegre and M.H. Rentz.
  • A monk, suffering a hallucination that he is being attacked by wolves, being freed from his delusions by Saint Anselm. Drawing by an artist in the circle of J.W. Baumgartner.
  • The Canaanite (or Syrophoenician) woman asks Christ to cure her possessed daughter; she points to a dog, to which she compares herself. Etching by P. del Po after Annibale Carracci.
  • Saint Francis de Paul (San Francesco da Paola) healing a young man with an ulcered leg. Etching by Giandomenico Tiepolo.

Works from the collections

158 works

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    • Online

    A lame man being doused in water from a holy spring to procure a miraculous cure, in Sarepta (?), Russia. Pen and ink drawing, 1903.

    | Date: 1903 | Reference: 22761i
    • Books

    Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

    | Date: 2012
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving.

    | Reference: 11082i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0005438: Four sections of a stained glass window at Canterbury Cathedral showing a cure of leprosy

    | Date: March 1938 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/44/63
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Ephemera

    And his Majesty doth accordingly will and command, that from the time of publishing this proclamation, none presume to repair to his Majesties court to be healed of that disease ... : given at our court of Hampton-Court, the fourth day of July, 1662. in the fourteenth year of our reign : God save the King.

    | Date: 1662
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Related topics

Religion and Medicine
Healers
Demoniac possession
Christianity
Jesus Christ - Miracles
Medicine in the Bible
Psychiatry
Complementary Therapies
Miracles
Apostles

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