(slideshow) Before there was the Sign of Peace, there was the Kiss of Peace

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The Victoria and Albert Museum has re-created the components of an altar from circa 1460, with a Pax included. The alabaster altar carving behind was an English speciality, often destroyed during the Reformation.

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© L. de Guise; Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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