-
Mexican pomponiards
The photo from 1888, taken during the first Mexican pilgrimage to Rome. In the middle, in a ferraiolo, there is Ibarra y González, the vicar…
-
Choristers of Dijon cathedral
The attire of the singers comprised, apart from a surplice, a red cassock, a coat and a zucchetto, the trims and buttons of which were…
-
Be cool – be an altar boy!
Introíbo ad altáre Dei, ad Deum qui lætíficat iuventútem meam.
-
Exercises
If you cense, do it with the style. Altar boys from France, practising before a Corpus Christi procession.
-
-
Altar boys’ capes
In cappa magna is cardinal Binet, the archbishop of Besançon. The taller altar boys keep relics on the feretrum, but it is the shorter ones who…
-
Albs
Archbishop Maurice-Louis Dubourg, Metropolitan of Besançon, in pontifical vestments, posing for a photo with altar boys clad in albs and with crosses hanging on the…
-
Roman tunics
Albs of French altar boys in the character of those worn in Rome even today, and which refer to antique tunics, worn during the beginning…
-
-
Procession in Bruges
The Procession of the Holy Blood in Bruges. Behind the cross and candles the relics of St. Donat and St. Basil are carried.
-
Collegium Capranicense
A seminarian of Collegium Capranicense, one of the oldest and most well-known Italian seminaries founded by cardinal Domenico Capranica in 1457. The two alumni of…
-
Bisbetó
Choristers from the Montserrat Abbey choir during a traditional December fancy dress party beginning on St. Nicholas’ Day: the boy chosen to be the bishop…
-
-
Italy
The city of Grado, the seat of one of patriarchates which, in the year 1451, was incorporated into the Patriarchate of Venice.
-
Bourbach-le-Haut
French altar boys from Alsace, 1956 [the source of the photo].
-
Choristers
White cassocks, but with dark cuffs and collars, and dark sashes – some pompon!
-
-
-
-
Seville altar boys
Altar boys from Seville are the best: albs with parures (parurae) and tunicles/dalmatics with tassels ♥
-