A cross with the Trinity, the Virgin, and saints, used to protect against witchcraft, plague, fire, and storms. Etching.

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11169i
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The saints are Saint Joseph, Saint Christopher, Saint Scholastica, Saint Anthony Abbot, Saint Sebastian, Saint Roch, Saint Florian and two unidentified saints

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1 print : etching

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In virtute huius segni tau que signni lither ... in morbe eta... liber nos Deus noster amen Iesu fili De... Contra maleficia et pestem; contra ignem et tempestates. Trina unitas Iesu Maria Josrph. The cross is inscribed with abbreviations. The Latin text is often mis-spelt. "La" in the lettering around the Virgin may refer to Landshut, where from 1680 the Ursuline convent preserved a copy of a Roman painting of the Virgin with her head inclined

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Wellcome Collection 11169i

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