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Het Leven dan de H. Maeghet Rosalia, Patronerse teghen de Peste. Beschreven door eenen Priester der Societeyt Iesu.Verlicht met Beelden, en met Poësie

8vo. pp. (40) including added engraved title page depicting Rosalia holding a lily and a skull surrounded by other patron saints against the plague, and at her feet dying men and women seeking her intercession, 222, (18). With 8 nearly full-page engravings in text by Frederick Bouttats after Philip Fruytiers as well as 9 half-page emblematic vignettes by Bouttats. Bound in contemporary vellum. Rare sole edition of this Jesuit life of St. Rosalia of Palermo (1130–1166), composed to celebrate her miraculous intercession during the Antwerp plague of 1656-7. Poirters dedicates the present work to a local Marian Sodality whose members included a veritable who’s who of Baroque artists and engravers – among them Philip Fruytiers (1610-1666), designer of the illustrations for Poirters’ book, and Antony van Dyck. After the discovery of St. Rosalia’s bones in a cave above Palermo in 1624, the city was saved from a ferocious plague, a miracle witnessed by van Dyck. Rosalia’s cult emerged in Antwerp following the arrival of some of her relics in that city in 1627 courtesy of an Italian priest, Giovanni de Tollenaere. These were ‘sought out and obtained’ by a Jesuit priest, also the head of the

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