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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…
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Trappists from Kentucky
The chant of the Passion of the Lord according to St. Matthew on Sunday in Ramis Palmarum at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani,…
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Holy Nail
Cardinal Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Archbishop of Milan, giving blessings with the reliquary of the Nail in 1938, probably on May 3, the Feast of the…
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Cross of Mathilda
Cross of Mathilda, a processional crux gemmata commissioned by Teofano, the abbess of the canoness’ monastery in Essen, in honor of her predecessor, Mathilda II,…
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Oecumenismus sicut socialismus
On the website of Gość Niedzielny, a popular Catholic magazine, there has appeared an article of Marcin Jakimowicz with a telling title resounding a slogan…
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Benedictines from Krzeszów
Nuns from the Benedictine convent in Krzeszów during a choir prayer in the monastery chapel. In the centre, on a platform, you may see the…
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Consistory 1953
Pope Pius XII in the Throne Room of the Vatican Palace, surrounded by newly created cardinals after the ceremony of handing over their birettes, on…
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Snowball fight
Roman clerics during the snowball fight held on St. Peter’s Square in the winter of 1958. As one may recognise from the black cassock and…
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Msgr. Scognamiglio Clá Dias
Monsignor João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, founder of the Heralds of the Gospel, an international association of the faithful of pontifical right, honorary canon of the…
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Abp. Hakim
Archieparch George Hakim, archbishop of Acre and later Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy on…
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Rose cassock
A rose cardinal cassock with a train from the first half of the 18th century. Twice a year, on the third Sunday of Advent, called…
