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Fr. Ciesielski
Father Michał Ciesielski (1870-1934), Domestic Prelate of His Holiness and Honorary Canon of the Chapter of Kalisz. It is not difficult to notice in the…
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Southern Barbarians
Fragment of a Japanese folding screen (byōbu) decorated with paintings entitled Arrival of the Southern Barbarians, attributed to Kanō Naizen, dated to the turn of…
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Consecration of Bishop Donahue
The photo shows the episcopal ordination of Rev. Stephen Donahue (1893-1982), auxiliary bishop of New York, which he received in St. Patrick’s Cathedral on May…
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To the Lateran
The Holy Father Paul VI during the procession to the Pontifical Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior, St. John the Baptist and St. John the…
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Banner of the Marshal of the Conclave
A banner with the coat of arms of the Chigi-Sayn Wittgenstein family, belonging to Prince Ludovico Chigi della Rovere Albani, hanging in front of his…
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Death of Pius IX
A graphic, described in the collection of the Paris Carnavalet Museum as a photograph on albumen paper, depicting the ceremony of officially declaring the death…
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Pius XI and portantina
Pius XI surrounded by members of his court emerging from a covered litter called in Italian portantina. The Pope is dressed in summer choir dress,…
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Fr. Lassala Orts
Hic est enim calix Sanguinis mei, novi et aeterni testamenti: mysterium fidei: qui pro vobis et pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum. Fr. José Antonio…
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Procession of the Holy Nail
A procession with the relic of the Holy Nail leaving the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Milan, 21 June 1939.…
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Bp. Benziger
Aloysius Maria Benzinger O.C.D. (1864-1942, born Adelrich Ludwig), Swiss clergyman, in the years 1905-1931 Bishop of Quilon in India (now Kollam), in the prelatic dress…
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Mass in the ruins of St. George’s Cathedral
Prayers at the foot of the altar during a Pontifical High Mass celebrated by Archbishop Peter Amigo, Bishop of Southwark (England), in the ruins of…
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Cardinal Gerlier
Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier (originally Gerlicz, after his Polish father), Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of the Gauls, sitting on the throne during a Pontifical High…
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Cruets from Nagyvárad
Cruets from the first quarter of the 16th century, gilded gold, Hungary. The foot and belly are decorated with pear and leaf motifs, while the…
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The last such Mass of the Resurrection
The Holy Father Benedict XVI at the elevation of the consecrated Species during the Holy Mass celebrated on Resurrection Sunday, April 8, 2012, on Saint…
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Canonization Mass
Solemn High Pontifical Mass celebrated by Pius XII on 7th May 1950, on the occasion of the canonization of Archbishop Antonio Maria Claret. The Pope…
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Florence
Midnight Mass celebrated on Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord by Fr. Gilles Wach, Prior General of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign…
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Procession of Silence
Bishop Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara, Ordinary of the Diocese of Cartagena in Spain, surrounded by members of the Brotherhood of the Holy…
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Pius X P.P.
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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Procession with the relics of St. Aloysius Gonzaga
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
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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Corpus Christi at St. Germain’s
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…
