Cardinal Rugambwa shows what inculturation should look like. However, he incorrectly has two train-bearers.

Cardinals from left to right: 1. Chiarlo2. Cento3. Fietta4. Giobbe5. Urbani6. Montini7. Ciriaci8. Agagianian9. Copello10. Tappouni11. Cicognani, G.12. Mimmi13. Masella14. Pizzardo15. Micara16. Tisserantpapież Jan XXIII17.…

Why, oh why, did he ban those trains?

The Prince Primate of Hungary, Card. Serédi O.S.B. in a cappa magna of moire silk decorated with ermine with tails.

Cardinal D’Alton, the archibishop of Armagh, the Primate of whole Ireland in a cappa magna of silk. The Canon pontificalis is probably held by the…

Cauda, which may by translated as “a tail” :) The photo taken at the tailor shop Tanfani & Bertarelli.

The second homage paid to the new pope in the Sistine Chapel. Cardinals in cappa magna are followed by train-beares in mantellone. It was one…

Joseph cardinal Ritter, the archbishop of Indianapolis, Assistant at the Pontifical Throne.

Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, in pontifical vestments and with the spread train of the choir cassock. On the left, next to the assistant priest,…

Cardinal Gibbons in a winter cappa magna and a biretta with a pompon (which is weird – cardinals wear birettas without them). The assistant priest…

George Burton, the fifth bishop of Clifton knew how to pose for a portrait  photo.

Netherlands, episcopal ordination. The minister of sacred ordiantion was cheerful bishop Bekkers, the ordinary of Hertogenbosch, in cappa magna on the photo. The consecrated one was…

The dedication of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on 5 October A.D. 1911, which was made by Archbishop John Joseph Huges in the presence…

The Patriarch of Venice, cardinal Urbani.

The Prince Primate of Hungary Jusztinián cardinal Serédi O.S.B. in winter cappa magna with ermine cape with tails.

Ermine in its winter fur :)

Consecration during a solemn Mass which was celebrated from the faldstool by papal delegate abp. Godfrey in the Westminster cathedral in the presence of papal…

Episcopal consecration in the cathedral of St. Vibiana in Los Angeles, March 19, 1941. The newly consecrated bishop Joseph McGucken is sitting on the faldstool, whereas…

On the right there is a monisgnor in a choir cassock with a train rolled up, on which he donned a rochet and a cotta.

Cardinal Désiré Mercier in a summer cappa magna, whose train, against the rules, is carried by two train-bearers in page’s attire.

Under the baldachin, assisted by honorary canons, there is papal nuncio Eugenio Pacelli in a summer cappa magna.