Breslau Cabinet of Natural and Artificial Curiosities

from the aspect of the secret Casimir, King of Poland, laid the foundations around the year of salvation 1052. Although it was initially only of wood, it was constructed of brick and hewn stone under Bishop Walther around the middle of the 12th century. It was subsequently restored, and now, having become almost entirely marble, it has grown into a most magnificent form.

And indeed, at the expense of the Title: Most Full Lord Sigismund Leopold, Count of Franckenberg and Ludvigsdorff, Prelate, Dean, and Canon of this Cathedral Church; who truly caused all the altars of the Temple and chapels to be fashioned from the most excellent marble of Priborn a region known for its high-quality stone, of a white color mixed with blue, and to be equipped with glittering gilded stone statues and other ornaments. In the chapel sacred to the Blessed Virgin the Virgin Mary, he caused such marble railings to be erected, and the chapels, especially the presbytery, commonly called the Choir, to be enclosed. He also had it adorned with four such gilded stone statues, representing the ecclesiastical Fathers Saint Gregory, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine to the size of a man. In these altars, the most sumptuous paintings of Italians and other most excellent artists are to be seen: among which Saint Barbara standing before a marble column, with a sword lying at her feet (as a sign that she was beheaded by her own father), is to be considered an exceptional effigy in this temple, along with Saint Catherine standing above, who had Brandel as their artist. Except that the Title: Most Full Lord Johann Wenceslaus Zierowsky of Zierova, Scholastic Prelate of this Cathedral church and President of the Renowned Episcopal Government of Neisse, and also the Title: Most Full Lord Johann Franciscus, Baron of Hoffmann, Prelate, Cantor, and Custos of the Cathedral and Collegiate Churches of Wrocław, and President of the same Neisse Government, each caused individual altars of this kind to be erected in the southern part next to the sacristy. In the order of these, in the ninth, Rottmayer of Rosenbrunn painted the central panel of Saint Joseph, holding the child Christ in his arms, to whom the crown of thorns and other instruments of torture are shown by an Angel. Furthermore, on the panels of the other altars, the following are seen depicted: in the first, Saint Anne by the very excellent Viennese painter Schmied; in the second, Saint John the Evangelist by the same; in the third, Saint Charles Borromeo and above, Saint Salesius, from Rome; in the fourth, the Fourteen Holy Helpers in afflictions, by Ambroise Mainard from the same place; in the fifth, Saint Michael the Archangel by the same; (for the sixth, see above.) In the seventh, Saint Peter and Saint Paul by the same Mai-