This week the Pope appointed 24 new cardinals in Rome in a consistory .
i.e a formal meeting of the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church held in the Vatican City.
i.e a formal meeting of the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church held in the Vatican City.
Those new cardinals and "Princes of the church" were presented with their rings...
Cardinals also receive new scarlet zuccheti (small skullcaps),
The Pope's zucchetto is white; the cardinals' zucchetti are scarlet; the bishops' zucchetti are violet.
Which one of these is the correct
one ? !
Cardinals also receive new scarlet zuccheti (small skullcaps),
The Pope's zucchetto is white; the cardinals' zucchetti are scarlet; the bishops' zucchetti are violet.
Priests may use a black cloth zucchetto for everyday wear, but not during the liturgy.
Cardinals also receive biretti (four-cornered silk hats) from the Pope.
They used to get an elaborate broad-brimmed tasseled hat, the galerum rubrum, at the ceremony, but Pope Paul VI abolished this in 1967 and those cardinals who want these obtain them privately from a maker in Rome.
They used to get an elaborate broad-brimmed tasseled hat, the galerum rubrum, at the ceremony, but Pope Paul VI abolished this in 1967 and those cardinals who want these obtain them privately from a maker in Rome.
The zucchetto, the biretta, and the galerum rubrum are all scarlet, the distinctive colour of cardinals' vestments, signifying their willingness to shed blood for the church ....
( that is a little unclear to me : whose blood would that be - their own or that of others or both ?)
( that is a little unclear to me : whose blood would that be - their own or that of others or both ?)
When a diocesan cardinal dies, his galerum rubrum is suspended from the ceiling of his cathedral.
At the consistory cardinals are generally assigned titular churches in the diocese of Rome, though Paul VI abolished their functional involvement in the governance of these churches; the cardinals formally "take possession" of these churches at a later date.
Meanwhile if you think that this one is a jolly Papal Christmas hat you are wrong .
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