Book Title: Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, : et des congregations seculieres de l'un & de l'autre sexe, qui ont esté establies jusqu'à present; contenant ... Les vies de leurs fondateurs & de leurs reformateurs: avec des figures qui repr

Author: Hélyot, Pierre, 1660-1716

Image Title: A Black Penitent

Description: A member of the Confraternity of Misericordia, also known as the Confraternity of the Beheading of Saint John, a Roman Catholic order founded in 1488 to help criminals. Engraved by François de Poilly (1623-1693).

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