V

Venice, 82

Vestments, 78

Via, Johannes à, 97

Vienna, 106 , 107 , 145 , 153

Virgin Mary: at Altötting pilgrimage, 26 , 27 , 33 -35;

and Counter-Reformation piety, 163 , 164 , 165 ;

development of medieval cult, 22 , 24 ;

Martin Eisengrein's defense of, 112 -13, 114 , 115 , 117 , 166 n15;

importance of miracles to cult, 103 -4;

and legends of lost and found images, 224 -25;

and legends of trial and triumph, 218 -23;

Johann Marbach's polemic against Our Lady at Altötting , 134 -36;

and Abraham Nagel's Our Lady at Flochberg , 212 -16;

at Niklashausen, 49 -50;

Regensburg Fair Mary pilgrimage, 53 , 54 , 55 ;

at Taxa, 225 -26

Visual piety, 4 , 171 ;

and Eucharist, 9 , 23 , 85 , 90 , 91 , 92 -94, 173 ;

at Altötting, 116 -17, 129 ;

and relics, 199 , 208

Voragine, Jacopo da, 152 , 203

Votive gifts, 28 -29, 31 , 58 , 59 , 184 ;

of Albrecht V to Altötting Madonna, 159 -60

Vows, importance of, in pilgrimage, 28 , 215