A High Pontifical Mass celebrated near the ruins of the St. Mary’s Cathedral in Nagasaki to commemorate the 400th anniversary of St. Francis Xavier’s arrival…

Giovanni Batista Montini, the archbishop of Milan, during a ceremony in the town of Corbetta.

The Papal Legate, Federico Cardinal Tedeschini, in pontifical vestments during the 35th International Eucharistic Congress in Barcelona, 1952.

The Patriarch of Venice, Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto, in Cima Grappa, 1901. Archbishop Giacomo della Chiesa during a pastoral visit in 1910. Archbishop Angelo Roncalli in Bulgaria.

Archbishop Alberto Gori O.F.M., the patriarch of Jerusalem, during a pontifical High Mass at the Holy Sepulchre [photo from Orbis Catholicus Secundus].

Pietro Cardinal Gasparri sitting on the throne during a solemn pontifical Mass celebrated in the Abbey of Monte Cassino. The Master of Ceremonies visible on…

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger after finishing the celebration of the Pontifical High Mass celebrated according to the Vetus Ordo in Weimar, in the year of Our…

Monsignor Alfredo Ottaviani smiling.

A Corpus Christi procession at St. Mark’s Square in Venice.

Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, the metropolitan of Milan, wearing a choir dress with a mantelletta and a tabarro thrown over his shoulders. One can see…

Henry Edward Manning, a convert from Anglicanism, Lord Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. He was born in 1808 in an Anglican…

Alfredo cardinal Schuster kiss the crucifix kneeling in the doorway of the Cathedral of Milan.

The absolution after the solemn Requiem Holy Mass for the repose of the soul of Eugeniusz Baziak, who died on June 15, 1962, Metropolitan Archbishop…

Willem Marinus cardinal van Rossum C.S.S.R. – the first Dutch cardinal since the times of the Reformation: he received the cardinal’s hat from the hands…

Bishop William MacNeely, the ordinary of Raphoe (Ireland), a diocese which has existed since the fifth century, in a choir dress with a mantelletta and…

Federico Cardinal Tedeschini as a papal legate during a procession before the Pontifical High Mass celebrated in Fatima to mark the end of the Holy…

Alfredo cardinal Schuster wearing a galero with tassels.

Bp. Athanasius Schneider surrounded by the assistants and priests after the High Pontifical Mass at the faldstool in Poznań (16.10.2013) [photo by Piotr Łysakowski].

Bp. Athanasius Schneider O.R.C. during the censing of the altar during a High Pontifical Mass.

Bp. Stefano Aurelio Bacciarini S.d.C, since 2008 the Venerable, blessing the faithful gathered in front of the Capuchin monastery of Santa Maria del Bigorio (Switzerland)…

Apostolic nuncio, abp. Roncalli, in the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame. Deacons assistants in dalmatics are standing next to him, whereas in the foreground is…