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Procession of Silence
Bishop Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara, Ordinary of the Diocese of Cartagena in Spain, surrounded by members of the Brotherhood of the Holy…
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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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Fr. Zavoral O.Praem.
Fr. Metoděj Jan Nepomuk Zavoral (1862 – 1942) in choir dress with a mozzetta made of white watered silk. From 1906, the abbot of the…
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Canon Thiébaux
Father Georges Thiébaux (1880-1961), honorary canon of the Nancy cathedral, in a winter choir dress with a chapter cross on a ribbon lying on ermine…
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First Chinese bishops
Holy Father Pius XI, in the centre, in pontifical vestments with a spread train of his cassock, at the consecration during a recited Holy Mass…
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Stephanus Cardinalis Wyszyński
Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, metropolitan archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and the Primate of Poland in the years 1948–1981; from 1953 cardinal priest of the titular…
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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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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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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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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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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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F.J. Sheen
Auxiliary bishop of New York and titular bishop of Caesariana, Fulton John Sheen in a ferraiolo [author: Yousuf Karsh]. The attire he hosted his TV…
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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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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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Te ergo qaesumus
Cardinals in the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament during the signing of the Te Deum laudamus during the consistory in the Vatican Basilica. The new…
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Ordination in Notre Dame
Singing of the Litany to All Saints during priestly ordination at a High Pontifical Mass in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. On the…
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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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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,…
