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 * **Medieval Priest Prays for Plague Victims** || **Medieval Plague Victim** ||  ||
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 * This picture shows a priest blessing the people that has died from the Black Death. The priest administers the rites to plague the victims that have died from the disease. This began to emphasized notations of a wrathful God. || They believed in medieval time that infection occurred through the sense of smell. For that reason the doctors would attend them by putting a sponge of sweet-smelling over his nose and or mouth. Diseases were thought to be travel through the nose so the fumigation and herb-soaked bungles from the sponges were used as stopping it before it spreads. ||  ||
 * **Fredrick I Barbarossa** ||  ||   ||
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 * This picture shows the head of Fredrick I Barbarossa himself. He embarked on the third Crusade and formed an army of 100,000 men and set out on the overland route to the Holy Land. Soon after drowning during this Crusade, his men lost the leadership and started to panic causing so many to die. Once looked upon as a leader during this time they decided to do sculptures of him for remembrance of the leadership he brought. ||  ||   ||