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Banner of the Marshal of the Conclave
A banner with the coat of arms of the Chigi-Sayn Wittgenstein family, belonging to Prince Ludovico Chigi della Rovere Albani, hanging in front of his…
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Death of Pius IX
A graphic, described in the collection of the Paris Carnavalet Museum as a photograph on albumen paper, depicting the ceremony of officially declaring the death…
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Pius XI and portantina
Pius XI surrounded by members of his court emerging from a covered litter called in Italian portantina. The Pope is dressed in summer choir dress,…
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Pius X P.P.
His Holiness Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, 1835 – 1914) in a winter choir dress, i.e. in a fine cloth cassock, a rochet and a…
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Paschal Pius
His Holiness Pius XII in a paschal choir dress, i.e. in a white damask mozzetta and stole, and slippers of the same colour, descending from…
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Gregory XVI paschally
Holy Father Gregory XVI in a paschal choir dress, i.e. in a white damask mozzetta lined with ermine, same camauro and white stole. Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari…
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Gregory the Great
Pedro Berruguete – Saint Gregory the Pope.
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Ioannes Paulus II
In the early years of his pontificate, during the term of office of two Masters of Pontifical Ceremonies, Virgilio Noè (behind the pope in the…
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In albis
His Holiness John XXIII in the Paschal choir dress, albeit incomplete. In the Easter Octave the Pope was dressed all in white: he wore white…
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Consistory 1953
Pope Pius XII in the Throne Room of the Vatican Palace, surrounded by newly created cardinals after the ceremony of handing over their birettes, on…
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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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Commander
Heinrich Pfyffer von Altishofen Commander of the Foot Corps of the Swiss at the Sacred Guard of the Pontiff (Cohors Pedestris Helvetiorum a Sacra Custodia Pontificis).
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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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Leo X
Raphael – Portrait of Pope Leo X with two cardinals, circa 1518. The cardinals are thought to be the Pope’s cousins: Giulio di Giuliano de’…
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Portantina
His Holiness Leo XIII, surrounded by the Noble Guard and the Swiss Guard, carried in a sedan chair through the corridors of the Apostolic Palace.…
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Falda
Pope Pius XII in the winter choir dress with a short falda at the secret consistory on January 14, 1953.
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Paschal mozzetta
Holy Father Paul VI in a Paschal choir dress, including a specially crafted white stole clipped with a pendant with his coat of arms, when…
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Why sedia gestatoria?
Here is a photographic explanation of why popes should continue to use a portable throne called sedia gestatoria: not only it’s better visible for everyone;…
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Ermein of Pius XII
Pope Pius XII blessing the City and the World from the loggia of the Basilica of St. Mary the Major. The Pope is dressed in…
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Salve, Regina
Pius XII praying before the painting of Our Lady of Częstochowa in the chapel of the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. On the wall…
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Pius IX
Holy Father Pope Pius IX, surrounded by his prelates (in croccia), members of the Noble Guard (on the right) and a Papal Zouave (kneeling on…
