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Benediction

Here are entered works on the blessing of objects and persons and the act of blessing as a liturgical function. General works on blessing and cursing are entered under Blessing and cursing.

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• Blessing and cursing
• Consecration

• Benediction -- Early works to 1800
• House blessings

• Die Kirchlichen Benediktionen im Mittelalter (2 volumes in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder, 1909), by Adolph Franz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In memoriam [ressource électronique] : bénédiction de tablettes commémoratives de Laurent Benoit, Moïse Vincent et de Maire T. Benoit, épouse de Moïse Vincent, à Saint-Hubert, le 29 octobre 1905. ([Québec (Province): s.n., 1905?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• (Lettre circulaire à Messieurs les prêtres du diocèse de Québec) [ressource électronique] : par son mandement du 28 octobre 1793, 2e. part. arti. 19 feu Monseigr. Jean François Hubert .. ([Québec : s.n., 1819]), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Québec. Évêque (1806-1825 : Plessis) and Joseph Octave Plessis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Filial respect, or, The way to render family blessings perpetual [electronic resource] : a sermon / ([Montreal? : s.n.], 1847), by Joel Fisk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours prononcé par M.C. Larocque curé de Saint Jean Dorchester [ressource électronique] : à l'occasion de la bénédiction de la première pierre d l'église des RR. RR. Jésuites, dédicé au Sacré-Coeur de Jésus, à Montréal le dimanche de la Sainte Trinité, 22 mai 1864. (Montréal : E. Senécal, 1864), by Charles Larocque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours prononcé par M. le grand vicaire Cazeau à l'occasion de la bénédiction du mouvement de Sillery [ressource électronique]. ([S.l. : s.n., 1870?]), by Charles Félix Cazeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benediction of a church ; Litany of the Saints ; Blessing of a bell ; Litany of the B. Virgin [electronic resource]. ([Kamloops, B.C.? : s.n., 1893?]), by Catholic Church and J. M. R. Le Jeune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bénédiction solennelle des quatre cloches de l'église St-Jean-Baptiste de Québec, dimanche, 23 mai 1886 [ressource électronique]. ([Québec? : s.n.], 1886), by Eglise catholique (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bénédiction solennelle du T.R.P. Dom M. Antoine [ressource électronique] : abbé de N.D. du Lac des Deux Montagnes d'Oka : à l'église de Notre-Dame de Montréal, le 29 juin 1892. ([Montréal : s.n.], 1892), by Dom M. Antoine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benediction of church [electronic resource]. ([Kamploos, B.C. : s.n., 1893?]), by J. M. R. Le Jeune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Kad ha-ḳemaḥ / (Ṿarsha : Bi-defus Y. Goldman, 1872), by Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Tefilah] [electronic resource] : [ʻal derekh ha-kabalah]. ([Place of publication not identified], [14--]), by Yehudah ibn Tibon, Moses Maimonides, of Cologne Abraham ben Alexander, and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) NNC (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Or ḥadash : ṿe-hu kerekh ḳaṭan meʻaṭ ... u-male ... birkhot ha-mitsṿot u-virkhot ha-nehenin ... = Oer chodesch / (Lemberg : A. Druker, 626 [1866]), by Ḥayim Bokhner (page images at HathiTrust)
• La bénédiction; sermon prononcé le dimanche 12 avril 1903, ler jour de Pâque. (Bayonne : Impr. Lespés Soeurs, 1903), by Emile Lévy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Del modo di conoscer et sanare i maleficiati, et dell'antichissimo, & ottimo vio del benedire : trattati due ... / (Sala Bolognese : A. Forni, 1987), by Floriano Canali (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Benedicenda; rites and ceremonies to be observed in some of the principal functions of the Roman pontifical and the Roman ritual, (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] Benziger brothers, 1907), by A. J. Schulte, Catholic Church. Rituale Romanum (1614), and Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Pontifical (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pontificale romanum summorum pontificum. (Mechliniae : H. Dessain, successor P.J. Hanicq, 1885), by Catholic Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermon prononcé par M. l'abbé L. Lindsay [ressource électronique] : chapelain des Dames Ursulines dans la chapelle des Franciscaines missionaires de Marie : à l'occasion de la bénédiction d'une statue du grand thaumaturge Antoine de Padoue. ([Québec : s.n., 1896?]), by L. Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust)

• A form of the indulgences, with which our Holy Father Pope Clement IX. blesseth the beads, rosaries, crosses, pictures, or medals, on the occasion of canonizing of St. Peter of Alcantura, and St. Mary Magdalen of Pazzis. ([S.l. : s.n., 1669]), by Pope Clement IX and Michelangelo Ricci (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Form of common prayer to be used on Wednesday the 27th of March, 1672 ... being the days of the general fast appointed by His Majesties proclamation, for imploring Gods blessing on His Majesties naval forces. (In the Savoy [London] : Printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker ..., 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• House blessing ceremony and guest book. (Pasadena, Cal., Radiant Life Press, 1917), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The problem of "curse" in the Hebrew Bible (Philadelphia : Society of Biblical literature and exegesis, 1963), by Herbert Chanan Brichto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les douze maledictions tombees sur les juifs : pour avoir procuré la mort de nostre Seigneur Jesus-Christ, sous l'empire de Tybere Cesar / ([France?] : [publisher not identified], [1694?]), by M Calion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sattva Sāntiya = Sathva santhiya, (Colombo : U.L.J. Perera, 1898), by Matara Andris Prērā Idirisinha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hatadi upata. ([Colombo : s.n., 1898]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kaepun sirasapadaya saha ; Maenikpala santiya / ([Colombo] : Granthaprakasaka Press, 1903), by J. D. Fernando (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sirasapāda mangalya prakaraṇaya : Jayamangalya Sirasa pāda saha, Navaguṇa jayamangalya sāntiya / (Peliyagoda: Sevyaśrī Press, 1898), by K. P. Dāvit Prērā (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sethianische verfluchungstafeln aus Rom, (Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1898), ed. by Richard Wèunsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Defixionum tabellae quotquot innotuerunt : tam in Graecis Orientis quam in totius Occidentis partibus praeter Atticas in Corpore inscriptionum atticarum editas / (Luteciae Parisiorum : in aedibus A. Fontemoing, 1904), by Auguste Audollent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antike Fluchtafeln [electronic resource] / (Bonn : A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1912), by Richard Wünsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antike Fluchtafeln, (Bonn, A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1912), by Richard Wunsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gaelic incantations, charms, and blessings of the Hebrides : with translations, and parallel illustrations from Irish, Manx, Norse, and other superstitions / (Inverness : Printed by the Northern Counties Newspaper and Printing and Pub. Co., 1895), by William Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die altdeutschen Verwünschungsformeln / (Berlin : [s.n., 1895]), by Karl Weinhold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mahāsirasapādaya saha śubhamagul śantiya / ([Sri Lanka] : Vidyāsāgara Yantrālaya, 1894), by Albert De Silva (page images at HathiTrust)
• The signification of berākā; a semasiological study of the Semitic stem b-r-k, (Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1913), by Thomas Bernard Plassmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antike fluchtafeln / (Bonn : A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1907), ed. by Richard Wünsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The hound of the Baskervilles : another adventure of Sherlock Holmes / (London : Smith, Elder, & Co., 1908), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Velikorusskīi︠a︡ zaklinanīi︠a︡ / (S.-Peterburg : Tip. Maĭkova, 1869), by L. Maĭkov and Yudin Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (page images at HathiTrust)
• A free discourse against customary swearing ; and, A dissuasive from cursing by Robert Boyle ; published by John Williams. (London : Printed by R.R. for Thomas Cockerill Senr and Junr, 1695), by Robert Boyle and John Williams (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Joss: A Reversion, by Richard Marsh (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lost Door, by Dorothy Quick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Secret of Kralitz, by Henry Kuttner (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Moorish conception of holiness (baraka) / (Helsingfors : Akademiska Bokhandeln, 1916), by Edward Westermarck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje, by Edward Carter (illustrated HTML at sofc.org)
• Mandement pour l'installation de Messire Ignace Bourget comme coadjuteur de l'évêché de Montréal dans le Bas-Canada [ressource électronique] : Jean-Jacques Lartigue, par la miséricorde de Dieu et la grâce du St. Siè ge apostolique premier évêque de Montréal, &c., à tout le clergé et à tous les fidèles de notre diocèse, salut et bénédiction. ([S.l. : s.n., 1837?]), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Évêque (1836-1840 : Lartigue) and Jean-Jacques Lartique (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bénédiction solennelle du T.R.P. Dom M. Antoine [ressource électronique] : abbé de N.D. du Lac des Deux Montagnes d'Oka : à l'église de Notre-Dame de Montréal, le 29 juin 1892. ([Montréal : s.n.], 1892), by Dom M. Antoine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fêtes de la consécration épiscopale de Sa Grandeur Mgr. L.P.A. Langevin, O.M.I., archevêque de Saint-Boniface [ressource électronique]. ([Saint-Boniface, Man,? : s.n.], 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The consecration meeting" / by F.M. Dewey. "The Pledge" / by Geo. R. Lighthall [electronic resource]. (Toronto : Endeavour Herald Pub. Co., 1890), by F. M. Dewey and George R. The pledge Lighthall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household consecration. (New-York, E. Collier, 1836), by Nathaniel Emmons Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kept for the Master's use / (London : James Nisbet, [1879?]), by Frances Ridley Havergal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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