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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.
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FSSPX
In the photo one can see a beautiful set of vestments used during priestly ordination performed by Bishop Alfons de Galarreta on June 28, 2019,…
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First Chinese bishops
Holy Father Pius XI, in the centre, in pontifical vestments with a spread train of his cassock, at the consecration during a recited Holy Mass…
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Stephanus Cardinalis Wyszyński
Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, metropolitan archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and the Primate of Poland in the years 1948–1981; from 1953 cardinal priest of the titular…
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Stanisławów
The clergy of Eastern Catholic rites, the Byzantine and Armenian ones, during the procession preceding the coronation of the miraculous image of Our Lady of…
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The crisis and the renewal
Some time ago I got a book of Peter Kwasniewski entitled Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis: Sacred Liturgy, the Traditional Latin Mass, and Renewal…
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Corpus Christi in Lisbon
The procession of Corpus Christi leaving the Cathedral of Saint Mary Major, led by the Patriarch of Lisbon, José Sebastião Cardinal Neto O.F.M. Disc., 1907.…
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Korčula
A Corpus Christi procession in Korčula, a city located on the island of the same name in the southern part of Dalmatia, 1957. The altar…
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Grand Master Chigi
His Most Eminent Highness Fra’ Ludovico Chigi della Rovere Albani Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem,…
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Ioannes Paulus II
In the early years of his pontificate, during the term of office of two Masters of Pontifical Ceremonies, Virgilio Noè (behind the pope in the…
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In albis
His Holiness John XXIII in the Paschal choir dress, albeit incomplete. In the Easter Octave the Pope was dressed all in white: he wore white…
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Altare Cathedrae Sancti Petri
The Altar of the Cathedral located in the apse of the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican captured, presumably, in a short period of…
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Pietrowice Wielkie
Easter horse procession in Pietrowice Wielkie, 1984; photo by Krzysztof Niedenthal. The cavalcade sets off from the parish church of Saints Vitus, Modest and Crescentia to…
