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Far East

This is how the bishop of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) used to travel.

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And this is what Poland is

A field Mass

A field Mass on the courtyard of the Nowości Theatre during the Warsaw Uprising. Despite such a difficult time people did not cease to make efforts to celebrate the Mass…

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Silks, trains and ermines

Pontifical Mass

The choir cassock with train ♥ The spread train, like the pallium, was a sign of the jurisdiction over a specific territory.

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Religious orders and congregations

This gesture also bothered someone…

In the photo the hands of the abbot of the Benedictine abbey in Kansas rested on the altar stone during one of the prayers during a Mass.

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De egressu a spelunca

I constantly encounter people sharing the opinion that on our website we ruthlessly attack the New Mass, which is unjustifiable, and, when criticising it, we deny the Second Vatican Council.…

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  • Papally

    Pius X P.P.

    13 February 2023 / No Comments

    His Holiness Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, 1835 – 1914) in a winter choir dress, i.e. in a fine cloth cassock, a rochet and a…

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  • Pontifices,  Privilegiati

    Procession with the relics of St. Aloysius Gonzaga

    26 January 2023 /

    Eugenio Cardinal Tosi, Archbishop of Milan in the years 1922 – 1929, during a procession with the relics of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, February 13, 1927.…

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    Card. Pecci

    14 November 2022 / No Comments

    Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci (1810 – 1903), Cardinal Priest of the church of San Crisogono in Trastevere, bishop of Perugia in the years 1846…

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  • Pinacotheca pomponica

    Corpus Christi at St. Germain’s

    4 July 2022 / No Comments

    Lancelot Théodore Turpin de Crissé (1782 – 1859) – The Royal Fête-Dieu procession at St. Germain-L’Auxerrois, oil on canvas. The red colour of the vestments…

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  • And this is what Poland is

    Card. Sembratowycz

    21 May 2022 / No Comments

    Sylwestr Sembratowycz (1836 – 1898), Greek Catholic priest, graduate of the Greek College in Rome, auxiliary bishop of Lviv in 1879-1885, metropolitan archbishop of the…

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  • Pontifices,  Una sancta

    Armenian Synod in Rome

    16 January 2022 / No Comments

    Bishops and other clergymen of the Armenian Catholic Church during the synod held in Rome in 1911 under the leadership of Patriarch Boghos Bédros (Paul…

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  • Young pomponiards

    Chinese altar servers

    21 November 2021 / No Comments

    Chinese altar servers in liturgical vestments with characteristic headgear, which, based on the papal privilege, was used in the Middle Kingdom from the beginning of…

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  • Commentarii

    A brief legal analysis of “Traditionis custodes”

    12 August 2021 / No Comments

    We present to you a legal analysis of the Apostolic Letter issued motu proprio Traditions Custodes written by a priest, a friend of our website,…

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  • Commentarii

    De bello liturgico

    8 August 2021 / 6 Comments

    Three weeks have passed since the Apostolic Letter was issued, introducing new regulations of the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass. The document once again…

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  • And this is what Poland is,  Tota pulchra et pretiosa

    Wawel monstrance

    27 April 2021 /

    17th-century baroque monstrance donated by Michał Oborski, auxiliary bishop of Kraków. According to legend, the cross on it, set with diamonds, was supposed to belong…

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    Msgr Gromier

    1 December 2020 /

    Fr. Léon Gromier (1879-1965) in a ferraiolo, shoes with buckles and a saturno. He was one of the greatest liturgists of the 20th century, a…

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  • Commentarii

    De causa Cardinalis Gulbinowicz

    15 November 2020 /

    A few days ago the Apostolic nunciature in Poland issued a statement regarding the investigation into the accusations towards card. Henryk Gulbinowicz, a former metropolitan…

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