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| x Papal regalia and insignia |
Papal regalia and insignia are the official items of attire and decoration proper to the Pope in his capacity as the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
Among the regalia of the papacy, the most famous is...
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| x Popemobile |
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Popemobile is an informal name for the specially designed motor vehicles used by the Pope during outdoor public appearances without having to employ the antiquated and often impractical sedia gestatoria. The Popemobile was designed to allow the Pope...
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| x Papal Tiara |
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The Papal Tiara, also known as the Triple Tiara, or in Latin as the 'Triregnum', in Italian as the 'Triregno' and as the 'Trirègne' in French, is the three-tiered jewelled papal crown, supposedly of Byzantine and Persian origin, that is a prominent...
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| x Papal Coronation |
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The Papal Coronation is the ceremony in which a new pope is crowned as earthly head of the Roman Catholic Church, sovereign of Vatican City, and Monarch of the Holy See. A three-tiered Triple Crown or Papal Tiara is used in the ceremony.
When a...
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| x Tiara of Pope Gregory XIII |
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The Tiara of Pope Gregory XIII is the oldest surviving papal tiara in existence. Its actual date of manufacture is not recorded. It is known however that it was manufactured during the reign of Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585), the creator the...
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| x Napoleon Tiara |
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The Napoleon Tiara was a papal tiara given to Pope Pius VII by Emperor Napoleon I in 1805 following the pope's coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of France.
The tiara, which was of traditional papal tiara design, was designed and manufactured by...
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| x Tiara of Pope Pius VII |
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The Tiara of Pope Pius VII was the first metallic tiara manufactured to replace the papal tiaras stolen and smashed on Napoleon's orders. It was given to Pope Pius VII in 1820. Though of traditional papal tiara design and decorated by jewels, it was...
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| x Tiara of Pope Gregory XVI |
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The 1834 Tiara of Pope Gregory XVI was a papal tiara given to Pope Gregory XVI. It was the first of three tiaras received or commissioned by Pope Gregory during his reign.
The tiara was unique up to the nature of its decoration, which involved three...
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| x Spanish Tiara |
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The Spanish tiara was a papal tiara given to Pope Pius IX by Queen Isabella II of Spain in 1854.
Though of similar overall shape to the usual tiara, the Spanish tiara was different in that its decoration was primarily of jewels, rather than of gold...
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| x Belgian Tiara |
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The Belgian Tiara is one of the most unusual Papal Tiaras in existence, largely due to its design.
The Tiara was donated by the Ladies of the Royal Court of the King of the Belgians on June 18, 1871 to Pope Pius IX (Pio Nono). Though the reason for...
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| x Palatine Tiara |
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The Palatine Tiara is the most widely used Papal Tiara in the possession of the Vatican. It was donated to Pope Pius IX in 1877 by the Holy See's Palatine Guard to commemorate his jubilee as a bishop. It was last worn to date by Pope John XXIII.
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| x German Tiara |
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The German Tiara was donated to Pope Leo XIII by Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany in 1887, officially to commemorate the golden jubilee of Leo's ordination as a priest. However it is suspected that its donation was an attempt to rebuild bridges with the...
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The Paris Tiara is a papal tiara given to Pope Leo XIII by the people of Paris in 1888 to commemorate his Golden Jubilee as a priest.
It was designed and manufactured by François Désiré Froment-Meurice.
As the image right shows, it featured in...
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| x Austrian Tiara |
The Austrian Tiara was a papal tiara given to Pope Leo XIII by the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, Franz Josef I in 1894.
Records suggest that it was rarely worn.
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| x Golden Tiara |
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The Golden Tiara was a gold and silver papal tiara given to Pope Leo XIII in 1903.
The tiara was given by the Vicar-General of Rome on behalf of the world's Catholics to commemorate the Pope's Silver Jubilee as pope. It was the fourth papal tiara...
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| x Tiara of Pope Pius X |
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The Tiara of Pope Pius X was a papal tiara manufactured for Pope Pius X by the papal jewellers, Tatani, to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Pius's ordination as a Catholic priest.
The new tiara, the only tiara he received in his reign, was given to...
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| x Tiara of Pope Paul VI |
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The Tiara of Pope Paul VI was the last papal tiara worn to date. It was donated by the see of Milan when its cardinal, Giovanni Montini, was elected Pope Paul VI in the 1963 papal conclave. It was this tiara that was used to crown Pope Paul VI in...
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| x Tiara of Pope John Paul II |
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The Tiara of Pope John Paul II, known also as the Hungarian Tiara, is the most recent known Papal tiara extant. It was donated to Pope John Paul II in 1981. Pope John Paul II never wore this or any other tiara during his papacy.
There are no details...
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| x Apostolic Palace |
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The Apostolic Palace, also called the Sacred Palace, the Papal Palace or the Palace of the Vatican, is the official residence of the Pope in the Vatican City. It adjoins St. Peter's Basilica.
The palace is a complex of buildings that includes the...
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| x Papal coat of arms |
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For at least 800 years, each Pope has had his own personal coat of arms that serves as a symbol of his papacy. The first Pope whose arms are known with certainty is Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254). Earlier popes were only attributed arms in the 17th...
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| x Papal Fanon |
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The Papal Fanon, or usually just Fanon (an old Germanic word for cloth), is a vestment reserved only for the Pope for use during a pontifical Mass.
It consists of a doubled shoulder-cape (somewhat like a mozzetta) of white silk ornamented with...
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| x Flabellum |
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A flabellum (plural flabella), in Catholic liturgical use, is a fan made of metal, leather, silk, parchment or feathers, intended to keep away insects from the consecrated Body and Blood of Christ and from the priest, as well as to show honour. The...
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| x Papal Cross |
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The papal cross or ferula is an emblem of the papal office. As a material cross, it was carried before the Roman pontiff in processions or was used by him as his pastoral staff.
In the past, this design of the cross was often used in ecclesiastical...
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| x Pallium |
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The Pallium (derived from the Roman pallium or palla, a woollen cloak) is an ecclesiastical vestment in the Roman Catholic Church, originally peculiar to the Pope, but for many centuries bestowed by him on metropolitans and primates as a symbol of...
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| x Ring of the Fisherman |
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The Ring of the Fisherman, also known as the Piscatory Ring, Annulus Piscatoris (in Latin) and the Anello Piscatorio (in Italian), is an official part of the regalia worn by the Pope, who is described by the Catholic Church (of which he is the head)...
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| x Basilica of St. John Lateran |
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The Basilica of St. John Lateran (Italian: Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano) is the cathedral of the Church of Rome, Italy, and the official ecclesiastical seat of the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope. Officially named Archibasilica Sanctissimi...
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| x Sedia gestatoria |
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The sedia gestatoria is a portable throne on which Popes were once carried. It consists of a richly-adorned, silk-covered armchair, fastened on a suppedaneum, on each side of which are two gilded rings; through these rings pass the long rods with...
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| x Sistine Chapel |
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Sistine Chapel (Italian: Cappella Sistina) is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. It is famous for its architecture, evocative of Solomon's Temple of the Old Testament, and its...
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| x Tiara of Pope Pius IX |
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jewel encrusted triple tiara gold and silver crown of Pope Pius IX
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| x Papal Jet |
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The Papal aircraft, a Boeing 777 named the Sestriere.
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| x Residenza Papale |
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| x Mantum |
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| x Papal Slippers |
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The Papal Slippers are a historical vestment of the Roman Catholic Church traditionally worn by the pope. The papal slippers are a form of episcopal sandals worn by bishops. However, unlike the episcopal sandals, which change with the liturgical...
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