Pilgrims Kneeling Before Claude's Shrine

Border: Pilgrims Kneeling Before Claude's Shrine (folio 180v) from the Hours of Henry VIII, by Jean Poyet, c. 1500.

The woman in front is noted as wearing contemporary court dress. "(St.) Claude was often prayed to by French nobility for the birth of sons."

This color image from Morgan Library, The Hours of Henry VIII [Art] Retrieved March 6, 2006 from the World Wide Web: http://www.morganlibrary.org/exhibitions/po/html/h8intro_fr.html