Mighty Mitres

From Montecassino:

The mitre on the right belonged to Leo X and it has more pearls than the ocean has drops.


Here's a close-up. Sorry for the flash, but without it you wouldn't see a thing.



Nnnnnniiiiiice!


Beautiful!

José do Patrocínios Dias

Thanks to reader Carlos, who sent in a ton of photos of Losé do Patrocínio Dias, Bishop of Beja/Portugal from 1920 to 1965.















Thanks again, Carlos!

Pectoral crosses from Portugal

Thanks to reader Jose, who sent in these photos of pectoral crosses and episcopal rings from Portugal:

Now that's cute!

Artist George Stuart produces very detailed and beautiful historical figures. Among these I found Louis Cardinal de Rohan (of "necklace affair"-fame). Mr. Stuart even made a little cappa for His Eminence!

Lying in state

Some readers keep asking for more photos of prelates lying in state. I have a really hard time finding these and I am sorry that I kept you waiting for so long. I hope the following three photos will make up for that:


Antolín Cardinal Monescillo y Viso, Bishop of Calahorra y la Calzada (1861-1865), Bishop Jaén (1865-1877), Archbishop of Valencia (1877-1892), Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain (1892 - 1897). This photo was taken in the chapel of the archiepiscopal palace in Toledo in 1897. I don't even know if it qualifies as "lying in state", since there is no coffin. Does anybody know anything about this? Why is the late Cardinal lying on the ground?



Two photos of Franziskus Cardinal von Bettinger, Archbishop of Munich (1909-1917).

Johannes Jacobus von Hauck

Archbishop of Bamberg in Germany from 1912 to 1943

Cardinal Bettinger

This former Archbishop of Munich (1909 - 1917) already had his own posting. But now I found this photo in which you can see a cardinal's cassock as it used to look (and - of course - in my opinion needs to look again): Watered silk with a nice little train attached.