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Diplomat-abbot
Lu Zhengxiang (1871-1949) dressed as a Chinese diplomat and in abbot’s pontifical vestments. Born in a Chinese Protestant family, he made a career in diplomacy:…
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Quebec
Adoro te devote, latens Deitas, quae sub his figuris vere latitas: tibi se cor meum totum subiicit, quia te contemplans totum deficit. Family kneeling in…
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Retablo Mayor de Sevilla
The largest reredos in the world which is located in the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See in Seville. It was designed in 1482…
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Mass in the ruins
Holy Mass celebrated in the ruins of the Church of St. Casimir the Prince on the New Town Square in Warsaw, which belongs to the…
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Cardinal’s Requiem
The funeral Mass for the soul of the deceased cardinal celebrated in the presence of His Holiness John XXIII in the Basilica of St. Peter…
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Holyoke
Bishop Christopher Joseph Weldon, Ordinary of the diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts, after the dedication ceremony of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Holyoke,…
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Sacramentum dedicationis
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French bands
Louis-Ernest cardinal Dubois, archbishop of Paris, in a zimarra and ferraiolo of silk moire, assisted by bp. Charles Gibier, ordinary of the diocese of Versailles,…
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Paschal Pius
His Holiness Pius XII in a paschal choir dress, i.e. in a white damask mozzetta and stole, and slippers of the same colour, descending from…
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Gregory XVI paschally
Holy Father Gregory XVI in a paschal choir dress, i.e. in a white damask mozzetta lined with ermine, same camauro and white stole. Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari…
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Bp. Butt
Joseph Butt, titular bishop of Alexandretta, i.e. Alexandria Minor, until 1933 called in Annuario Pontificio Cambysopolis, auxiliary bishop of Westminster, while putting incense during the…
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Symbol
Bishop of the eparchy Piana degli Albanesi of the Italo-Albanian Church Sotìr Ferrara during the recitation of the Symbol of faith during the Divine Liturgy…
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New commandment
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in a silk damask simplex mitre with a characteristic pattern of a pine cone and a rochet. The cloth girded over the shoulder…
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Jerusalem
Bishop of Włocławek Karol Radoński, accompanied by two assistant deacons holding the flaps of his cope, during a procession in the Basilica of the Holy…
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Abp Checa y Barba
A posthumous photo of Archbishop José Ignacio Checa y Barba, metropolitan of Quito, on the throne and in all pontifical vestments. Together with the president…
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Dachau
One of the first Masses of bl. Fr. Karl Leisner celebrated on 26 December A.D. 1944 in the concentration camp in Dachau. Fr. Leisner was…
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Messa dello Spadone
In Cividale del Friuli, a town belonging to the former Patriarchate of Aquileia, in the archipresbyterial church of the Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed into Heaven,…
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Fr. Zavoral O.Praem.
Fr. Metoděj Jan Nepomuk Zavoral (1862 – 1942) in choir dress with a mozzetta made of white watered silk. From 1906, the abbot of the…
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Te Deum 2010
Holy Father Benedict XVI descending from the steps of the throne, assisted by two papal masters of ceremonies, St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, December…
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Canon Thiébaux
Father Georges Thiébaux (1880-1961), honorary canon of the Nancy cathedral, in a winter choir dress with a chapter cross on a ribbon lying on ermine…
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Gregory the Great
Pedro Berruguete – Saint Gregory the Pope.
