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Dominican nuns
Two of the founding sisters of the contemplative Dominican monastery in Pakistan during a ride on a camel.
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:D
Oh, those old school nuns :)
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Monk-bishop
Blessed Andrea Longhin, Capuchin monk, bishop. He looks like a saint from pictures.
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Cistercian abbess
The Cistercian abbess holding a beautiful crosier with attached veil called pannisellus, velum or sudarium.
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Lima
The procession from the sacristy to the altar before the celebration of the Low Mass in the Franciscan church in Lima, Peru.
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A Benedictine abbess
The Benedictine abbess of the monastery of St. Walburga in Eichstätt wearing gloves and pectoral cross, with a crosier in her hand on which there is a…
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Franciscan archbishop
The archbishop of Belgrade, Ivan Rodić O.F.M., in a Franciscan cappa magna and, what is really interesting, in a pallium. And it is a really…
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Dominican rite
First Holy Mass in the Dominican Rite. On the left side one can see the fan (flabellum), one of two used during the solemn liturgy…
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Whom, oh whom?
A Carthusian monk in a habit and a cloak keeps wondering whom all of it bothered :)
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Choirous abbot
An abbot of one of the abbeys belonging to the Olivetan Benedictine Congregation in a mantelletta and a mozzetta (naturally with a hood).
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This gesture also bothered someone…
In the photo the hands of the abbot of the Benedictine abbey in Kansas rested on the altar stone during one of the prayers during…
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Abbot Pennings
Fr. Bernard Pennings O.Praem., Abbot of St. Norbert Abbey in De Pere, Wisconsin, in a winter cappa magna [picture from Norbertine Vocations].
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Nuncio Ratti on Polish religiosity.
“Religiosity of this nation is also more visible than natural kindness: it suffices only one glance at the focused and pious people gathered in their…
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Ad orientem
St. Adalbert’s parish in Mikołów – so called old church. After the renovation something of its interior has disappeared: steps extended to form of the…
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Funeral of the Marshall
The coffin of the Marshall of Poland, Józef Piłsudski, set on a gun carriage before Wawel Cathedral in the cript of which he was buried…
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Beatae Mariae Virginis Reginae Poloniae
Our Lady ♥ Our Pope ♥
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Gorzkie Żale and nuncio Ratti
This very beautiful Polish devotion made a great impression on our merciful reigning Holy Father Pius XI, who, desiring to become acquainted with the “Gorzkie…
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An old Polish seminary
Hard times of the pre-conciliar “winter of the Church” in a Polish seminary
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Abp. Gawlina
Military Bishop of the Polish Army, major-general abp. Józef Feliks Gawlina – titular archbishop of Madito, Assistant at the Papal Throne. We advise all to…
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Coronation of a painting
Coronation of the painting of Virgin Mary from Oratorian basilica in Święta Góra conducted by card. August Hlond. Ah, these coronas of the clergy! These…
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One of the first Masses of fr. Glemp
Fr. Józef Glemp, later cardinal and the Primate of Poland, on the day of celebration one of his first Masses in Mogilno.
