Procession of sacred relics, 10th century. Monks in robes chant from holy books and swing censers next to a canopied litter. A crowd of disabled men seek healing. From a miniature in a manuscript in the Bibliotheque royale de Bruxelles. Portement de Reliques, Xe Siecle. Drawn and chromolithographed by Ferdinand Sere from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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