M0005648: Saint Blaise's candles, used for the Blessing of the Throats sacrament

Date:
September 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/46/60
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M0005648: Saint Blaise's candles, used for the Blessing of the Throats sacrament. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Saint Blaise's Candles

Description

Photograph of a pair of St Blaise candles used in the Roman Catholic Church. They were previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but are not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

September 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Copyright note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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