Procession performed as a religious practice

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Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.

Monks carrying a corpse in a religious funeral procession, passers-by pay respect. Coloured aquatint.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: activities of pilgrims. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.

Baths of Diocletian, Rome: a religious procession walking pass the Baths ruins and surrounding buildings. Tinted aquatint.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: procession from the railway station to the grotto. Wood engraving.

A procession to St. Mary's Church, Oxford by the convocations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and the burning of the bones of Protestant theologians in Cambridge. Line engraving by Myers.

A religious cholera procession in rural Russia. Pen drawing by I.A. Wladimiroff.

M0001816: Photograph of a man from a Catholic brotherhood (cofradía) during the annual tribute of the Passion of Jesus Christ called Holy Week (Semana Santa) in Seville, Andalucia during Easter

Ankober, Ethiopia: a religious procession with St Michael's church in the background. Coloured lithograph after J.M. Bernatz.

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Processions, Religious

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Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.

Baths of Diocletian, Rome: a religious procession walking pass the Baths ruins and surrounding buildings. Tinted aquatint.

A procession to St. Mary's Church, Oxford by the convocations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and the burning of the bones of Protestant theologians in Cambridge. Line engraving by Myers.

M0001816: Photograph of a man from a Catholic brotherhood (cofradía) during the annual tribute of the Passion of Jesus Christ called Holy Week (Semana Santa) in Seville, Andalucia during Easter

Ankober, Ethiopia: a religious procession with St Michael's church in the background. Coloured lithograph after J.M. Bernatz.

Processions, Religious

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Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.

Baths of Diocletian, Rome: a religious procession walking pass the Baths ruins and surrounding buildings. Tinted aquatint.

A procession to St. Mary's Church, Oxford by the convocations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and the burning of the bones of Protestant theologians in Cambridge. Line engraving by Myers.

M0001816: Photograph of a man from a Catholic brotherhood (cofradía) during the annual tribute of the Passion of Jesus Christ called Holy Week (Semana Santa) in Seville, Andalucia during Easter

Ankober, Ethiopia: a religious procession with St Michael's church in the background. Coloured lithograph after J.M. Bernatz.

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