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A bed is prepared and blessed for a couple who have just been married. Engraving.
Wellcome Collection

A bed is prepared and blessed for a couple who have just been married. Engraving.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The benediction, or blessing of the nuptial bed, a ceremony of the Roman Catholics. Engraved for Dr. Hurd's Religious Rites & Ceremonies of All Nations

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