Altar frontal, Medium: cotton, linen, silk, metallic thread Technique: appliqué with satin, couching and chain stitch embroidery on plain weave, Altar frontal with an embroidered band that reads on the left 'imponebant manus super illos,' and at the right end 'et accipiebant spiritum sanctum.' Band is surrounded by scrolling vines. In central section, twelve medallions with figures of saints embroidered in brown and yellow silk surrounded by a scrolling vine embroidered in gold thread and red cotton. The saints (from left to right) are: the Virgin and St. Anne, The Virgin and Child, St. Henry of Bavaria (identification not certain), St. Christina, Joseph, a Bishop (not identified), St. Peter, Christ, St. Paul, John the Baptist, St. John and St. Francis., Germany, early-mid-19th century, embroidery & stitching, Altar frontal