Carmelitan nuns during a meal on a pentitential day.

Two of the founding sisters of the contemplative Dominican monastery in Pakistan during a ride on a camel.

Oh, those old school nuns :)

Blessed Andrea Longhin, Capuchin monk, bishop. He looks like a saint from pictures.

The Cistercian abbess holding a beautiful crosier with attached veil called pannisellus, velum or sudarium.

The procession from the sacristy to the altar before the celebration of the Low Mass in the Franciscan church in Lima, Peru.

The Benedictine abbess of the monastery of St. Walburga in Eichstätt wearing gloves and pectoral cross, with a crosier in her hand on which there is a…

The archbishop of Belgrade, Ivan Rodić O.F.M., in a Franciscan cappa magna and, what is really interesting, in a pallium. And it is a really…

First Holy Mass in the Dominican Rite. On the left side one can see the fan (flabellum), one of two used during the solemn liturgy…

A Carthusian monk in a habit and a cloak keeps wondering whom all of it bothered :)

An abbot of one of the abbeys belonging to the Olivetan Benedictine Congregation in a mantelletta and a mozzetta (naturally with a hood).

In the photo the hands of the abbot of the Benedictine abbey in Kansas rested on the altar stone during one of the prayers during…

Fr. Bernard Pennings O.Praem., Abbot of St. Norbert Abbey in De Pere, Wisconsin, in a winter cappa magna [picture from Norbertine Vocations].

Apostolic Delegate for the French-speaking Africa, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre C.S.Sp., during a visit to Madagascar. While holding his office, he strove to allow as many…