Saint Patrick of Ireland, followed by canons, inserting a key into the lock of a church door to the pit or Purgatory. Saint Patrice ouvrant le Purgatoire, France, XIIIe siecle. From a manuscript on the Lives of the Saints, Lan. MS 7019, Bibliotheque Imperiale. Chromolithograph by Franz Kellerhoven after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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