Breslau Cabinet of Natural and Artificial Curiosities

Above the doors of the chapel appears an effigy of the Cardinal to the chest, expressed by the knight Bernini, celebrated throughout the whole world.

These statues alone cost a sum much greater than 20,000 Imperials. That the greatness and weight of them might be judged, I add the weight of each, and indeed according to the standard of Roman weights, it has: Saint Elisabeth 3,600 pounds: two Angels on marble columns 4,350 pounds: 3 Angels on the altar 1,700 pounds: the Cardinal 3,800 pounds: Truth 3,956 pounds: Constancy 4,259 pounds: two lions next to the coin 1,500 pounds: two boys standing on either side 1,548 pounds.

Furthermore, the whole work from the bottom up to the upper projection is constructed of blue and white marble in the Corinthian order, where the life and miracles of Saint Elisabeth are shadowed forth here and there through paintings. The central vault, and the dome—the Italians call it "Cupola"—and the lantern represent the heavenly glory of all the Saints, which was painted on fresh lime by the most artful painter Jacob Scanzy. In the sacristy in the same place, the wooden staff of Saint Elisabeth is shown, which she herself used; on which the Cardinal had silver plates applied, and it was inscribed how he himself descends from her, and who she was; likewise her sacrificial and cardinalitial vestments.

The second, at great expense, was caused to be built by FRANCIS LOUIS, Archbishop of Trier, Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire throughout Gaul and the Kingdom of Arles, and Elector, General of the Order of the Militia of Jerusalem of the Teutonic Knights of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Prussia, and Supreme Master of the same throughout Germany, Italy, and the overseas parts, Bishop of Worms and Wrocław, Provost of the Principality of Ellwangen,