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  his is one of the earliest known images of the plague. Drawn in 1349, during the time of the Black Death, it shows people carrying coffins of those who died of the illness in Tournai royal Library Belgium

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Triumph of Death fresco, circa 1448; Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, Italy

  Josse Lieferinxe at the end of the 15th century, St. Sebastian, one of the saints whom people prayed to for protection against the plague

1340s by the French chronicler and poet Gilles li Muisis, residents of a town stricken by the plague burn Jews

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