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Wawel monstrance
17th-century baroque monstrance donated by Michał Oborski, auxiliary bishop of Kraków. According to legend, the cross on it, set with diamonds, was supposed to belong…
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Msgr Gromier
Fr. Léon Gromier (1879-1965) in a ferraiolo, shoes with buckles and a saturno. He was one of the greatest liturgists of the 20th century, a…
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Diplomat-abbot
Lu Zhengxiang (1871-1949) dressed as a Chinese diplomat and in abbot’s pontifical vestments. Born in a Chinese Protestant family, he made a career in diplomacy:…
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Holyoke
Bishop Christopher Joseph Weldon, Ordinary of the diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts, after the dedication ceremony of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Holyoke,…
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French bands
Louis-Ernest cardinal Dubois, archbishop of Paris, in a zimarra and ferraiolo of silk moire, assisted by bp. Charles Gibier, ordinary of the diocese of Versailles,…
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Dachau
One of the first Masses of bl. Fr. Karl Leisner celebrated on 26 December A.D. 1944 in the concentration camp in Dachau. Fr. Leisner was…
