Silks, trains and ermines,  Una sancta

Pentitential procession

cappahoodedCardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, surrounded with canons of the Milan cathedral, is carrying a cross. The penitential character of the procession, which took place after the Soviet military intervention during the Hungarian uprising in 1956, is indicated by the covered heads of the prelates.

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