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Cross of Lothair
Processional crux gemmata (jewelled cross) from the treasury of the Cathedral of the Virgin Mary in Aachen, made before the year 1000. Core of oak…
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Papa
Holy Father Benedict XVI on the central balcony of the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, called the Loggia of the Blessings, during Urbi…
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Imperial procession
Procession of Corpus Christi in Vienna, circa 1910. Emperor Franz Joseph is walking behind the canopy. The beginnings of the great Habsburg worship of the…
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Lisbon
Procession of Corpus Christi in Lisbon, 1908. The Patriarch of Lisbon, Archbishop Antonio Mendes Bello, whose falda is being supported by accompanying canons in mozzettas,…
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Corpus Christi in the Ambrosian Rite
Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster assisted by honorary deacons during the procession of Corpus Christi in Milan, 1939. According to the custom of the Ambrosian rite,…
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Pluvialists from St. Nicholas
Corpus Christi procession from the church of St. Nicholas du Chardonnet, occupied by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, on the streets of Paris,…
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(Polski) Servite Domino!
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Bp. Hlond
Bishop of Katowice August Hlond S.D.B in a choir dress, i.e. in rochet and mantelletta.
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Chartres
Holy Communion delivered during a High Mass celebrated by a priest of the Congregation of the Franciscan Brothers of Immaculate during the pilgrimage Paris –…
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Friday
Charles Édouard Delort – Friday.
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Abp. Caruana
The solemn ingress of the first native Maltese and the last titular Archbishop of Rhodes, Maurus Caruana O.S.B., to his cathedral of St. Paul in…
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Cavalcade
Cavalcade on Easter Monday in Pietrowice Śląskie: a horse procession during which the riders ride around fields asking for good harvest; it is led by…
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Mandatum novum
John XXIII washing the feet of priests during the Mandatum ceremony in the Basilica of St. John on Lateran on Maundy Thursday, 1959. The papal…
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De initio finis
In pomponious-celebratory terms, the last two weeks were an interesting time: not only the number of celebrations of Holy Week according to the rules from…
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Prostration
Prostration during the chant of the Litany of All Saints at the liturgy of the Holy Saturday before the great altar of the Benedictine Abbey…
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Hooded
Card. Schuster with a hood of the cappa magna on his head, which, together with the cross carried by him, indicates the penitential nature of…
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Granada
Priestly ordination celebrated probably on Saturday preceding Passion Sunday, i.e. Palm Sunday, in the Dominican church of Santa Cruz La Real in Granada. New priests,…
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Dominica II Passionis
His Holiness John XXIII carried on a portable throne during the procession taking place in the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican on Palm…
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Passion Sunday on Vatican
Pope Pius XII celebrating pontifical low Mass on the Passion Sunday of 1949 on the great altar of the Basilica of St. Peter. At the…
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Offerimus tibi, Domine
Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás reciting the offertory prayer of the chalice during the celebration of the Holy Mass. We pay attention to decorations,…
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Commander
Heinrich Pfyffer von Altishofen Commander of the Foot Corps of the Swiss at the Sacred Guard of the Pontiff (Cohors Pedestris Helvetiorum a Sacra Custodia Pontificis).
