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Bp. van Lierde
Bishop Petrus Canisius van Lierde O.S.A. during the preparatory prayers before the celebration of a Pontifcal High Mass from the faldstool in the church of Our Lady…
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Rosaceum
A rose pluviale, i.e. the cope from the Klosterneuburg Abbey of the Augustinian Canons. What a tassel!
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Card. Döpfner
Julius cardinal Döpfner in a solemn choir dress. The function of his familiaris is being fulfilled by a knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy…
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In colour
His Holiness John XXIII on the Benediction Loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica just after the coronation.
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Dogma
Pius IX proclaims the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the fresco in the Hall of the Immaculate Conception, Vatican Museums…
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Daroca
An example of the usage of a gremiale during a Corpus Christi procession in Daroca, Spain [the source].
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Nagasaki
A High Pontifical Mass celebrated by the bishop of Nagasaki, Paul Aijirō Yamaguchi, on the ruins of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the…
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On the Scala Regia
Pope Pius XI during the procession before the ceremony of the canonization of Fr. Andrzej Bobola, April 17, 1938.
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Fr. Sopoćko
Fr. Michał Sopoćko (1888-1975) in the solemn choir dress of the gremial (titular) canon of the chapter of the Vilnian Metropolitan Basilica in Białystok. This…
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Clasp
Benedict XVI in a cope, on the clasp of which a decorative formale with the coat of arms of Leon XIII is attached, during the…
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Holy Trinity Chapel
Holy Trinity Chapel in Lublin [photo by Jacenty Dędek].
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De conditionibus
Some time ago I went to visit a priest I know, together with two friends; as we all are altar boys of the Latin Mass…
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A Clare
A nun of the Order of Saint Clare kneeling during a meal in front of the cross lying on the ground. The penitential nature of…
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Card Montini
Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Cardinal Montini in a winter cappa magna.
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Napping
The author: Georges Croegaert.
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Venice
Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Roncalli, assisted by a cathedral canon, acting as an assistant deacon, in a simple mitre (mitra simplex) on his head.
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Seminarians
Seminarians from the Pontifical North American College in Rome [image from Orbis Catholicus Secundus].
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Benedict XV about Poland
Don’t be afraid of hardships – You shall go to the nation where the Faith is on the first place and the nation itself is…
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At St. Peter’s
The Divine Liturgy celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.
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Cathedra in Lateran
Holy Father Pius XI in a winter choir dress sitting on the cathedra in the Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior, St. John the Baptist…
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Abp. Hannan
Archbishop Michael Hannan, the Metropolitan of Halifax in Nova Scotia (Canada), in a winter cappa magna with ermine cape with tails and with an unusual pectoral…
