Breslau Cabinet of Natural and Artificial Curiosities

To pass over other precious and artfully made ecclesiastical ornaments, for example, silver monstrances (as they call them) adorned with gems, crosses, croziers, mitres, sacrificial vestments, chalices, tankards, hanging lamps, and others, etc.: among which is a mitre of singular workmanship, fashioned with wonderful art from straw by a Capuchin monk in Rome; and another, which the Serene Hedwig Elisabeth Amalia, wife of the Royal Polish Prince James Louis, together with her princely daughters, ingeniously embroidered with her own hand at Oława, with the insertion of most excellent pearls taken from the spoils, which the Grand Vizier of the Turks (as they call him) had worn on his clothing during the siege of Vienna.

The pulpit was sculpted here by Johann Adam Karinger entirely from blue Priborn marble, just like the previously mentioned altars. Above stands an effigy of the Church Militant with six seals, as prefigured in Revelation chapter 6, fashioned here by Johann Georg Urbansky, who also expressed there in higher relief Saint John the Baptist in the desert, his beheading in prison, and further, in the ascent, the four Evangelists, all of them indeed made of alabaster and gilded. But the Savior Christ on the pulpit was painted by Ambroise Mainard of Rome, just as the larger images of the twelve Apostles are hung on the pillars of the temple, with the most illustrious Count of Franckenberg bearing the expense for all these.

In addition, of great value in the northern part of the temple in the eighth chapel is the Virgin Mother with the infant Jesus in a little forest of firs, painted by Lucas Cranach; also Saint John the Baptist with the Lamb, depicted after the central panel of the altar of Saint Vincent by Wilmann, cast from metal.

The greatest splendor is brought to this Temple by two spacious chapels, built at great expense, and remarkably adorned with very beautiful statues.

The first was built at his own expense while he was still alive, and he ordered his body to be buried there after his death, which followed in the year 1682: FREDERICK, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Landgrave of Hesse, Bishop of Wrocław, Grand Master of the Military Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in the provinces of Germany, Prince in Hertzfelden, Count in Catzenellenbogen, Dietz, Ziegenheim, Nidda, Schauenburg, Isenburg, and Budungen, etc., Protector of the Holy Roman Empire of the Teutonic nation and of the Kingdoms of Aragon and Sardinia, and Supreme Captain of