This beautiful wooden Printing Block or stereotype was made around 1860 for the Print Shop of the Monastery in Altötting in Bavaria (Germany). It shows a beautiful picture of a Saint Gertrude of Nivelles. It looks great as a decoration, but can still be used to print.
Saint Gertrude of Nivelles was a 7th-century abbess who, with her mother Itta, founded the Abbey of Nivelles located in present-day Belgium. The first miracle attributed of Gertrude in the Vita Sanctae Geretrudis takes place at the altar of Pope Sixtus II the Martyr as Gertrude was standing in prayer. "She saw descending above her a flaming pellucid sphere such that the whole basilica was illuminated by its brightness."
Provenance : Altötting - Germany
Size : circa 3 by 2 1/4 Inch
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