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Snowball fight
Roman clerics during the snowball fight held on St. Peter’s Square in the winter of 1958. As one may recognise from the black cassock and…
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Msgr. Scognamiglio Clá Dias
Monsignor João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, founder of the Heralds of the Gospel, an international association of the faithful of pontifical right, honorary canon of the…
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Abp. Hakim
Archieparch George Hakim, archbishop of Acre and later Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy on…
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Rose cassock
A rose cardinal cassock with a train from the first half of the 18th century. Twice a year, on the third Sunday of Advent, called…
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Princely wedding
A photo from the wedding of Henri d’Orléans, considered a Prince of France by the Orléanists, and duchess Maria Teresa of Württemberg at the royal…
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Gray Eminence
Jean-Léon Gérôme – Gray eminence, 1873. The painting depicts a scene in which high-class laymen and clergy, including a cardinal in a cappa magna, are bowing…
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Third Silesian Uprising
Field Mass celebrated during the Third Silesian Uprising, 1921. In the background, one can see the armoured car Erhardt M1917, called by the insurgents “Górny…
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Chasuble from Kremsmünster
Rekwialny ornat z benedyktyńskiego opactwa Kremsmünster w Austrii z przedstawieniem na czarnym aksamicie Śmierci wspierającej się na kosie i mającej pod stopami różne oznaki władzy…
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Bp. Faveau C.M.
Bishop Paul-Albert Faveau from the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarites), titular bishop of Tamassos, the first Apostolic Vicar of Western Chekiang founded by Pope Pius…
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On St. Sebastian
Cardinal Schuster, archbishop of Milan, surrounded by the assistants during the pontifical High Mass celebrated on the day of the liturgical memorial of Saint Sebastian,…
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Papal Requiem
Pius X assisting to the funeral Holy Mass coram Summo Pontifice celebrated in the Sistine Chapel on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the…
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Bp. Józef Pelczar
Józef Sebastian Pelczar, Bishop of Przemyśl in the years 1900 – 1924, in the winter choir dress. Please pay attention to an interesting cappa magna,…
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Amadeus de Bie O.Cist.
Gerardus Franciscus Amadeus de Bie O.Cist., Abbot of the monastery in Bornem in Belgium, and then the Abbot General of the Cistercian Order in the…
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Moire
His Holiness Paul VI in the papal choir cassock of white moire silk and with a pectoral cross hung on a golden cord.
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Neo-union
A Corpus Christi procession in the Catholic parish of the Byzantine-Slavonic rite in Kostomłoty. The bi-ritual parish priest of the Neo-union parish, Fr. Zbigniew Nikoniuk,…
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Ceremonial of Bishops presently in light of the post-Tridentine Caeremoniale Episcoporum [CE]. An analysis of chosen problems: lay Master of Ceremonies and his vestments.
It’s been 10 years since the publication of the motu proprio Summorum pontificum. A lot has changed since then, including the frequency of Pontifical Masses…
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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
Pope Benedict XVI in a winter choir dress on the central balcony of the Basilica of St. Peter, called the Loggia of the Blessings, during…
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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
Cardinal Schuster assisted by honorary deacons during the procession of Corpus Christi in Milan, 1939. According to the custom of the Ambrosian rite, all the…
