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Pope and inquisitor
A painting by Jean-Paul Laurens known also as Sixtus IV and Torquemada.
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Card. Rugambwa
Laurentius Rugambwa first bishop of the diocese of Rukoba located in Tanzania, later archbishop of Dar es Salaam, cardinal priest of the church of St.…
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Ut unum sint
A photo from the eparchy of Preszov of the Catholic Church of the Slovak Bizantine Rite, from the day of chirotony of bp. Basil Hopka…
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Child Jesus
Father Pio O.F.M. Cap. carrying a Child Jesus figurine during a Christmas Eve celebrations. According to local tradition, such a procession took place after the…
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Alter Christus
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Christmas carols
Photocopies from the book Pastorałki i kolendy w czasie świąt Bożego Narodzenia w domach śpiewane (Częstochowa, 1898) are taken from the website of the National…
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De fructibus et numeris
Post-conciliardom may be criticised in many aspects, using various arguments, but there is no such as efficient a tool as bare numbers: one may notice…
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Canon Nobels
Canon August Nobels, a member of the chapter of St. Bavo cathedral in Ghent, in the winter choir dress.
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Abp. van de Wetering
Henricus van de Wetering, the archbishop of Utrecht, in the summer cappa magna tied up in the front.
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Altar boys from Chicago
Altar boys from the Polish parish of St. Stanislaus Kostka in Chicago, in 1917. [the source of the photo].
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Camerino of John XXIII
Camerino had been a popular winter headgear of the popes since the Middle Ages until the times of Benedict XIV who was said to be…
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The Pope on the throne
Holy Father Benedict XVI in the winter choir dress sitting on the throne of Leo XIII.
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Dignified gathering
Francesco Brunery painted a very dignified group of prelates, both secular and monastic ones; of course they all have their trains spread :)
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Abp. Wojtyła
Abp. Karol Wojtyła in the summer cappa magna.
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Council
St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican during a solemn Mass coram Summo Pontifice celebrated during the opening of the Second Vatican Council, October 11, 1962.
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Card. Mercier
Desiré-Félicien-François-Joseph cardinal Mercier, the archbishop of Mechelen.
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Adventus
Adventus – the ancient Romans used that word to denote a solemn welcome ceremony for the emperor arriving at a city; usually the city was…
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Strange cappa parva
Or the arm was put in a wrong place, or else it is some strange cappa parva. As one may easily recognise, because of a…
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Hungary
Hungarian altar boys from Clarisseum together with their custodian, Salesian coadjutor brother, bl. Stefan Sándor (standing on the right side) murdered by communists and announced…
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Benedictus
Holy Father Benedict XV carried on the sedia gestatoria during the procession on the occasion of canonisation of Joan of Arc; this is why the…
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Card. Tedeschini
Federico Cardinal Tedeschini as a papal legate during a procession before the Pontifical High Mass celebrated in Fatima to mark the end of the Holy…
