Wellcome Collection
A plague cross with the Trinity, the Virgin, St. Joseph, St. Christopher, St. Scholastica, St. Anthony Abbot, St. Sebastian, St. Roch, St. Florian and two unidentified saints. Etching.
Unknown artist
Lettering: 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 plague 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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