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Card. Stickler
Alfons Maria Cardinal Stickler reading the Prologue of St. John’s Gospel at the end of a Solemn Pontifical Mass.
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Seminary of St. Sulpice
Ordination in the seminary of St. Sulpice, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France [the photo from Catholic Conclave].
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Ingress of Abp. Wojtyla
Archbishop Karol Wojtyła in the winter cappa magna during his ingress to the Royal Archcathedral Basilica of Saints Stanislaus and Wenceslaus on the Wawel Hill…
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Monstrance from Lublin
The monstrance from the 2nd quarter of the 17th century from the treasury of the Dominican monastery in Lublin [photo by IKTP].
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At St. Paul’s Basilica
Holy Father Pius XI in the mantum and tiara carried on the sedia gestatoria flanked by the papal flabella with ostrich feathers blessing the faithful…
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Cistercian nun
A Cistercian nun in the choir dress.
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Epiphany 2012
Holy Father Benedict XVI during the Holy Mass on the feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord A.D. 2012.
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In Lyon
A Mass in the Lyonese Rite celebrated in the presence of card. Albert Decourtray, the Primate of the Gauls, in the metropolitan cathedral devoted to…
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So we post it ;)
O, that’s a good one – I’m gonna send it to IKTP, maybe they’ll post it.
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Bp. Sabbah
Bishop Michel Sabbah, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, kissing the Stone of the Anointing in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre A.D. 2003.
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Presentation
Michelangelo presents a model of St. Peter’s Basilica to Pope Paul IV, wearing a Paschal choir dress, including a white camerino. The painting by Domenico…
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Hood
What the hood of a cappa magna looks like [the photo from Orbis Catholicus].
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Paschal audience
Benedict XVI in the Paschal choir dress, though with ordinary red slippers, with a beautiful stole of Leon XIII, decorated with his coats of arms…
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Paschal dress
Holy Father John XXIII in a Paschal choir dress: white slippers, stole and mozzetta. Only camerino, practically unused by his predecessors, remained in its usual…
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Easter Vigil in Westminster
Blessing of the fire during the Easter Vigil celebrated in the metropolitan cathedral of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ in London. The…
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Consummatum est
Et inclinato capite tradidit spiritum. Singing of the Passion during the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, the Sistine Chapel, 1939.
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Mandatum
Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard, Archbishop of Paris, during the Holy Thursday Mandatum ceremony, 1947. The bishop, wearing an alb, a purple stole and a miter, kneels…
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Palm Sunday in Sevilla
Canons in cappae during the procession around the Cathedral of Blessed Virgin Mary in Seville on Palm Sunday, April 4, 1909. The covered cross visible…
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Scriptum est enim
There was a custom worth preserving which was practiced on Palm Sunday in Poland. During the procession with palms, after the entrance to the church…
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In Palmis
Paul VI in a mantum and precious mitre (mitra praetiosa) carried on a portable throne (sedia gestatoria), wearing the papal cope, under a red canopy,…
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Basilica of the Virgin Mary
The interior of the Archpresbyterial Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven in Cracow.
