Roman Auguries. They have existed since the foundation of Rome and exercise a practice derived from the Greeks and Etruscans, the Etruscans disciplina.
An Augur. Roman official priesthood.
Tag: Ecclesiastical Dress
Costumes of the spiritual orders. 10th to 18th century.
Monastic habit of spiritual orders from Poland, Germany and Flanders from the 10th to the 18th century.
Habit of different nun orders. Ecclesiastical Monastic orders.
Female religious habit at the end of the eighteenth century. Nuns who live according to the Rule of St. Augustine, St. Dominic, St. Benedict and of Saint Angela Merici.
The Abbot and Monks of Kushan Monastery about 1870.
The similarity between the Buddhist faith and the Roman Catholic churches may be traced even more minutely than this. “Buddhists everywhere have their monasteries and nunneries, their baptism, celibacy and tonsure, their rosaries, chaplets, relics, and charms, their fast-days and processions, their confessions, mass, requiems, and litanies, and, especially in Tibet, even their cardinals, and their pope.”
Tolling of Buddhist Bells and the series of 108 strokes.
In almost all Buddhist monasteries, may be seen a bell, which is tolled by the monks morning and evening. These regular tollings comprise a series of 108 strokes. This number 108 represents:
Persian characters at the end of the 19th century. Travel to Iran.
Golnabat Khanoum (Mrs. Sugar-candi) of the Susmani tribe.
Roman Pope in chamber clothes 18th c.
Roman Pope in Chamber Clothes
Pope Pius VI. from 1775 to 1799. Ecclesiastical costume.
Pius VI. P. M.
Nun of the Order of St. Basil in her Choir dress.
A Greek nun of the Order of St. Basil in her Choir dress 18th c.. Religieuse Grecque de L’Ordre de St. Basil en habit de choeur.
Habit of an Augustin Nun. Order St. Augustin 18th c.
Religieuse de L’Ordre de St. Augustin. The relatives of the Augustinian women’s orders are also called Augustinians.
