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    Card. Pecci

    Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci (1810 – 1903), Cardinal Priest of the church of San Crisogono in Trastevere, bishop of Perugia in the years 1846…

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    Msgr Gromier

    Fr. Léon Gromier (1879-1965) in a ferraiolo, shoes with buckles and a saturno. He was one of the greatest liturgists of the 20th century, a…

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    Quebec

    Adoro te devote, latens Deitas, quae sub his figuris vere latitas: tibi se cor meum totum subiicit, quia te contemplans totum deficit. Family kneeling in…

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    Dachau

    One of the first Masses of bl. Fr. Karl Leisner celebrated on 26 December A.D. 1944 in the concentration camp in Dachau. Fr. Leisner was…

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    Messa dello Spadone

    In Cividale del Friuli, a town belonging to the former Patriarchate of Aquileia, in the archipresbyterial church of the Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed into Heaven,…

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    Imperial procession

    Procession of Corpus Christi in Vienna, circa 1910. Emperor Franz Joseph is walking behind the canopy. The beginnings of the great Habsburg worship of the…

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    Chartres

    Holy Communion delivered during a High Mass celebrated by a priest of the Congregation of the Franciscan Brothers of Immaculate during the pilgrimage Paris –…

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    Notre-Dame

    Solemn High Mass celebrated at the great altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Paris on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the…

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    Connecticut

    A Holy Mass celebrated in a period of penance: we draw your attention not only to the use of folded chasubles (planetae plicatae), but mainly to…

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    Middle Kingdom

    The celebrant, in this case the newly ordained priest, is wearing Ji-jin, that is the headdress used until the early 20th century by Catholic priests in China…

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    Fr. Ratzinger

    Father Joseph Ratzinger during the prayers at the foot of the altar when he celebrated a Mass in the mountains near the town of Ruhpolding,…

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    Holy Cross

    The high altar in the underground Basilica of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen (Basílica de la Santa Cruz del Valle de…

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    In Portico

    Pontifical High Mass at the faldstool celebrated by Archbishop Guido Pozzo in the church of Saint Mary in Portico on the Campitelli square.

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    Fr. Charles-Roux

    Father Jean Marie Charles-Roux I.C. in a buckled shoes and a hat with raised brim (la Canoa, Chapéu de Raia). More information about this deceased…

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    Chicago

    High Pontifical Mass celebrated by Cardinal Giovanni Bonzano at the opening of the 28th International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago on the Soldier Field stadium, June 21,…