Ordination in the seminary of St. Sulpice, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France [the photo from Catholic Conclave].

A High Pontifical Mass celebrated from the faldstool by the Metropolitan of Baltimore, Archbishop Michael Curley, in the presence of the Papal Legate, Cardinal Lorenzo…

The deacon from the Hochstift Paderborn carying a flabellum made of peacock feathers (hence its name: a peacock’s tail-bearer) during the traditional procession with the…

A shot from the film Name of the Rose.

  An example of the usage of a gremiale during a Corpus Christi procession in Daroca, Spain [the source].

Italy, 1929.

Rome, A.D. 1929.

Kenya, 1937 [the source: A Catholic Life].

A shot from the film adaptation of Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose showing the papal legate, Cardinal Bertrand du Pouget.

The exposition of the Blessed Sacrament during the Forty Hours Devotion in the London’s Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Brompton Oratory).

John Paul II during the elevation of the chalice at the Holy Mass on the inauguration of his pontificate. We pay attention to the preservation…

Domus sanctificationis nostrae et gloriae nostrae, ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri, facta est in exustionem ignis, et omnia desiderabilia nostra versa sunt in ruinas. (Isaias…

Priestly ordination performed in one of the Dutch seminars in the fifties.

The picture in the Internet is described as the prostration during Good Friday liturgy. However, it seems that it was taken on Holy Saturday, during…

The work over the hats intended for newly created cardinals in the Roman workshop of Barbiconi.

Adventus – the ancient Romans used that word to denote a solemn welcome ceremony for the emperor arriving at a city; usually the city was…

Remember, human, that one day the pompons on this earth shall end. The thing that matters is to merit perfect pompons of Heavenly liturgy :)

The red galero, called by the locals el capèl, is a material symbol of the protection given to Brescia by its patron saints, Faustinus and…

A shot of the movie “The Shoes of the Fisherman” from 1968 presenting the conclave still in the old form: with baldachins over the thrones…

We do not understand this logic either…

The source: San Diego History Center.