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Et benedictio Dei
Pope Pius XII, dressed in pontifical vestments and with a tiara on his head, standing on the step of the sedia gestatoria, after the morning…
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Paschal mozzetta
Holy Father Paul VI in a Paschal choir dress, including a specially crafted white stole clipped with a pendant with his coat of arms, when…
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Benedictio
Holy Father Benedict XVI in a Paschal mozzetta with a hood and in a white stole, in accordance with the custom he restored, worn by…
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Sicut cervus
The Archbishop of Florence, Agostino Cardinal Bausa, on his way to the Baptistery of St. John, located at the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore,…
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At St. Helen’s
A canon of the Collegiate Basilica of St. Helen in Birkirkara (Malta) with a hood of the cappa put on the head during the adoration…
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Adoratio crucis
The Archbishop of Lima Juan Landázuri Ricketts O.F.M. adoring the cross during the service on Good Friday. The bishop celebrating the liturgy did this only…
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In Sevilla
The procession on the Palm Sunday departing from the Our Lady Cathedrad in Seville with the participation of the Archbishop Eustaquio Cardinal Ilundáin y Esteban,…
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Westminster
Francis Alphonsus Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, surrounded by the clergy and the faithful standing in front of the cathedral doors and waiting to re-enter…
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Card. Hayes
Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, the Archbishop of New York, leaving St. Patrick’s Cathedral after a Mass on Palm Sunday, 1933. Despite the winter cappa magna,…
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Brothers
Brothers Joseph and Augustin Lémann in the choir dress of the canons of Lyon. The brothers were Jewish orphans who grew up in a wealthy aunts.…
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Byzantine Abp. Sheen
Archbishop Fulton Sheen in the vestments for celebration of the Divine Liturgy. As you can see, the Byzantine rite vestments include elements of Latin robes: the…
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Why sedia gestatoria?
Here is a photographic explanation of why popes should continue to use a portable throne called sedia gestatoria: not only it’s better visible for everyone;…
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Censorship
Jehan Georges Vibert – The committee on moral books.
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Viking pontificals
The crosier of a narwhal tusk and the gold ring belonging to the Bishop of Gardar, the medieval Norman settlement in the southern Greenland.
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Bp. Hoenen
Father François Hoenen S.V.D., the Bishop of Kenge in the Congo, kissing the papal shoe during the ceremony of episcopal ordination conferred by pope Paul VI, Rome,…
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Connecticut
A Holy Mass celebrated in a period of penance: we draw your attention not only to the use of folded chasubles (planetae plicatae), but mainly to…
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At St. Sabina
Pope Benedict XVI during the Holy Mass celebrated on the Ash Wednesday in the Roman Basilica of St. Sabina on February 6, 2008.
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Middle Kingdom
The celebrant, in this case the newly ordained priest, is wearing Ji-jin, that is the headdress used until the early 20th century by Catholic priests in China…
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Pulvis
Remember, man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.
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Card. Cushing
Archbishop Richard James Cushing, the Archbishop of Boston, in the winter cappa magna.
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Collegium Graecum
The seminarians of the Pontifical Greek College in Rome in 1974.
