Pontifices

Westminster

Francis Alphonsus Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, surrounded by the clergy and the faithful standing in front of the cathedral doors and waiting to re-enter it during the Palm Sunday procession, March 20, 1932. According to the regulations at the time, the canons, who are performing the function of deacons assistants and holding the flaps of the cope, are wearing folded chasubles (planetae plicatae).