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Winter slippers
Pius X’s velvet slippers lined with fur and decorated with brocade hems and embroidered crosses on the toes.
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Card. McCloskey
John Cardinal McCloskey, the Archbishop of New York, in choir dress with a spread train of his cassock.
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Mighty Tisserant
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant during a Pontifical High Mass celebrated at the altar of St. Peter Chair at the beginning of the conclave, June 19th, 1963.
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At Jasna Góra
The first and only official visit of the Chief of State Józef Piłsudski to Jasna Góra, on October 20, 1921, to express gratitude for the…
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College of St. Joseph
Members of the children’s choir of the College of St. Joseph at the cathedral of Cuenca, Spain. The choir was created in 17th century. Its…
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St. Deodatus
A relic of St. Deodatus, a martyr, Rheinau, Switzerland. These remains, along with many others, were found in the 16th century in accidentally discovered Roman…
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Leo X
Rafaello Santi – Portrait of Pope Leo X with two cardinals, circa 1518. The cardinals are usually identified as papal cousins: Giulio di Giuliano de’…
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Sedan chair
Pope Leo XIII, surrounded by the Noble Guard, carried in a sedan chair through the corridors of the Apostolic Palace.
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Consecration
Singing of the Litany to All Saints during the episcopal consecration of Mons. Pacelli conducted by His Holiness Benedict XV in the Sistine Chapel on…
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Jesuits
Jesuit novices during the meditate in cemetery at their formation house in Los Gatos, California, USA.
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Medievally
Pope Benedict XVI in a red chasuble of medieval style after the end of the funeral Mass celebrated for the soul of the deceased Cardinal…
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Notre-Dame
Solemn High Mass celebrated at the great altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Paris on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the…
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Lyonese Rite – Confiteor
Confiteor during the Pontifical High Mass on Holy Thursday, 1934, in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Lyon. In front of the steps…
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Powiśle
A Holy Mass celebrated in Powiśle during the Warsaw Uprising on August 15 [the source: 1944.pl].
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Card. Ilundáin
The Metropolitan of Seville, Archbishop Eustaquio Ilundáin y Esteban, in a cappa magna during the Corpus Christi procession in 1923. One of the servants is…
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Abp. Copello
Santiago Luis Copello, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Buenos Aires, in a mozzetta and manteletta.
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Skałka
Primate of Poland card. Stefan Wyszyński in pontifical vestments with the reliquary of St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów in Cracow in the Skałka church, May 8,…
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Altar boys from the church of St. Cross in Kielce
Two photos of altar boys from the parish of St. Cross in Kielce from 1958 which we received by courtesy of the author of the…
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Reliquary from Offida
The reliquary from Offida (XIII century), containing the Host miraculously transformed into the bleeding Body of Christ and a fragment of the True Cross
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If you are a pope, dress like a pope!
Holy Father Benedict XVI in the summer choir dress during his pilgrimage to Germany.
