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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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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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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…
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Presenting the tiara
Presentation of the tiara, a gift of the faithful of the diocese of Milan, to Pope Pius XI. The Sistine Chapel, 1923.
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Pius PP. IX
His Holiness Pope Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti) in the winter choir dress.
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Paschal mozzetta
His Holiness John XXIII in a white, Paschal choir dress: in the stole of Leo XIII and in a damask mozzetta, but unfortunately without an…
