A correspondent has forwarded to me the above photo of Pope Gregory XVI wearing the red velvet Papal Cappa. This was used by the Supreme Pontiff for Tenebrae and Christmas night. The picture was found by Leo at The Far Sight.
I was told that this papal cappa was abolished by the next Pope, none other than the Blessed Pius IX. This has me worried. Did Mastai-Ferretti harbour secret yearnings for guitar masses some time in the future? I think we should be told.
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Ha!
To be fair, it does make him look like a nun...
Looks a bit like a mother superior clad in scarlet
The post on Far Sight doesn't state that this is Pope Gregory XVI nor that it was still worn in the middle of the 19th century...
When I first saw the picture without my reading glasses, I thought it was a red nun. Probably Pope Pius wisely foresaw that if this outfit were not immediately banned, someone using Image Search on Google might confuse him with Sr Margaret Farley.
Ha! Ha! Father.
The Pope that gave us the "Syllabus of Errors"was one of the earliest proponants of Folk Mass's.
"The Pope that gave us the "Syllabus of Errors"was one of the earliest proponants of Folk Mass's."
The 'Folk Mass' being among the greatest.'
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