the far sight 2.0

Umberto Luciano Altomare (1914-1986)

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Bishop of Muro Lucano (1962-1970) and of Teggiano-Policastro (1970-1986)

Can't have a series of postings without a happy prelate

Pietro Cardinal Maffi (1858-1931)

2012-01-27T03:07:00.000-08:00

Archbishop of Pisa from 1903 to 1931.

To bad this splendid photo of His Eminence is so small...

Mario Cardinal Nasalli Rocca

2012-01-26T03:00:00.000-08:00

Who is the priest on the right? He looks familiar...

Giovanni Cardinal Cagliero (1838-1926)

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Francis Cardinal Bourne (1861-1935)

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Archbishop of Westminster from 1911 to 1935. The train on the prelate's cassocks: Bring it back! And is that Archbishop Luigi Maglione on the left?

Some Bishop in Ireland...

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... with a nice old-fashioned train on his cassock

Archbishop Alberto Vassallo di Torregrossa

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Last Apostolic Nuncio in Bavaria (1925-1936)

Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve (1883-1947)

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Archbishop of Quebec from 1931 to 1947 (with cordial greetings to my pal J.P.Sonnen)

Louis-Nazaire Cardinal Bégin (1840-1925)

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Archbishop of Quebec from 1898 to 1925

Archbishop Salvatore Siino (1904-1963)

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Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic (1953) and to the Philippines (1959)

Willem Marinus Cardinal von Rossum...

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... walking under a canopy

Francesc Cardinal Vidal i Barraquer

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Archbishop of Tarragona from 1919 to 1943

Manuel Lago González

2012-01-16T02:01:00.000-08:00

Bishop of Osma from 1909 to 1917
Bishop of Tuy from 1917 to 1923
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela form 1923 to 1925

Manuel Hurtado y García

2012-01-15T01:52:00.000-08:00

Bishop of Tarazona/Spain from 1947 to 1966.

Happy New Year!

2012-01-14T01:31:00.000-08:00

You probably thought that I let this blog die without even telling you.

Well, I didn't.

I just don't have the time and the material anymore to update the blog frequently.

But since this is a new year and since I haven't been posting for a while, here are some random photos from France you might enjoy:

Archbishop Dubillard of Chambery

An unidentified bishop

It's always good to have a canon in the mix

Some archbishop of Toulouse

Mgr Catteau, bishop of Lucon

Mgr Sagot du Varoux, bishop of Agen

Josef Cardinal Wendel

2011-09-03T23:13:00.000-07:00

The archbishop of Munich on the occasion of the 800-year-jubilee of his episcopal city in 1958

A nice Mix of Cardinals...

2011-09-02T23:07:00.000-07:00

This photo was taken in Cologne on occasion of the 700-year-anniversary of the cathedral in 1948:

From right to left: Cardinals Griffin (Westminster), Innitzer (Vienna), Van Roey (Brussels) and Faulhaber (Munich)

Paul Emile Cardinal Leger

2011-09-01T23:01:00.000-07:00

Why is it that the photos with the cappa magna always are black and white?

Rufino Cardinal Santos

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A kind reader sent in this photo of Rufino Santos' elevation to the cardinalate, which made him the first Filippino cardinal.

More Cardinal Stritch

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Sorry for the watermarks on the last two photos. They're still pretty cool, though, wouldn't you say?

The Concistory of 1958

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There's Amleto CCardinal Cicognani, happy. Behind hi there's Julius Cardinal Döpfner, not so happy.

Front from left to right: Cardinals Tardini, Di Iorio, O'hara (?). Behind O'Hara to his right you see the later Pope Paul VI, Cardinal Montini.

Cardinal Pacelli...

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... in the USA:

Three more photos...

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... of Cardinal Stritch:

Santiago Luis Copello (1880-1967)

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As Archbishop of Buenos Aires (1932-1959):

As newly created Cardinal (1935) in the Vatican (with autograph):

"What's your opinion..."

2011-07-15T04:17:00.000-07:00

"... on arranging the cappa magna like a landscape?"

"I'm all for it!"

José Francisco Orozco y Jiménez, archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico from 1913 to 1936.

Manuel Cardinal Cerejeira (1888-1977)

2011-07-14T04:14:00.000-07:00

Picture taken from a newspaper (obviously).

Archbishop Emanuele Clarizio (1911-2001)

2011-07-13T04:03:00.000-07:00

Apostolic Nuncio to Dominican Republic from 1961 to 1967. Here we see him during the consecration of Monsignor Luis Aponte Martinez as archbishop of San Juan/Puerto Rico.

Giovanni Cardinal Urbani (1900-1969)

2011-07-12T04:01:00.000-07:00

Archbishop of Verona 1955-1958
Patriarch of Venice 1958-1969

Another strange cappa

2011-06-08T02:37:00.000-07:00

Bishop Haas of Basel/Switzerland, celebrating his golden priestly jubilee.

George Cardinal Mundelein

2011-06-07T02:32:00.000-07:00

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

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Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

2011-06-05T02:14:00.000-07:00

I think that's archbishop Rummel second from right

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

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Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

2011-06-03T02:12:00.000-07:00

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

2011-06-02T02:11:00.000-07:00

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

2011-06-01T02:08:00.000-07:00

Part two of the Cardinal Spellman Mini-Series

2011-05-31T02:06:00.000-07:00

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

2011-05-30T02:16:00.001-07:00

I'm back!

2011-05-30T01:58:00.001-07:00

You poor and dear readers probably thought I fell off the earth. Don't worry, I am still here, but I got caught up in a lot of work, so I wasn't really able to blog.

Just to clarify: Blogging will continue for as long as I can find new material. Even if you don't see any new postings for a long, long time, it doesn't mean that I stopped blogging. When I finally shut down the blog, I'll let you know early enough, so you can observe an appropriate time of mourning and maybe send me some "last minute"-pictures to post.

Why don't we start with part one of a "New photos pf Cardinal Spellman" two-part-mini-series? Most of the photos have watermarks, but they are still worth seeing.

Part two: Tomorrow!

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

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And again!

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

2011-03-19T09:35:00.000-07:00

And again...

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

2011-03-18T09:35:00.000-07:00

And again...

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

2011-03-17T09:34:00.000-07:00

Again as Apostolic Delegate

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani

2011-03-16T09:32:00.000-07:00

As Apostolic Delegate to the USA

Cardinal Stritch

2011-03-15T09:31:00.000-07:00

Samuel Cardinal Stritch just keeps on giving! So many nice photos of him out there!

Cardinal Stritch and others

2011-03-14T09:26:00.000-07:00

It's easy to recognize Cardinal Stritch (left, with mitre). The prelate to the far right in cappa magna looks like cardinal Spellman, the cardinal to his right looks like McGuigan and whoever recognizes the fourth cardinal grabbing his biretta is really, really good!

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani (1883-1973)

2011-02-28T07:52:00.000-08:00

Another photo from his time as Apostolic Delegate to the USA.

Amleto Cardinal Cicognani (1883-1973)

2011-02-27T07:45:00.000-08:00

Before he became a Cardinal he was the Apostolic Delegate to the United States from 1933 to 1959.

Here we see him during the installation of Archbishop Francis Patrick Keough, Baltimore.

Another photo of Cardinal Stritch...

2011-02-26T07:44:00.000-08:00

... with a bishop that I cant identify but who looks quite happy.

Cardinal Innitzer and Nuntius Dellepiane

2011-02-25T07:38:00.000-08:00

The Archbishop of Vienna meets the Papal Nuntio to Austria.

Also: Check out the cathedral canons of Vienna in the background with their ermine mozettas.

Egidio Vagnozzi

2011-02-16T04:50:00.000-08:00

Apostolic Delegate to the United Stats from 1958 to 1968

Pectoral Crosses and Episcopal Rings...

2011-02-15T04:17:00.000-08:00

... from Hungary, 18th and 19th century:

Pontifical Rings...

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... and pectoral crosses from 19th-century Vienna.

Once upon a time...

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Blessed John XXIII...

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... and Cardinal Ruffini

Pope Pius XII...

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... and Cardinal Mooney

Cardinal Stritch

2011-02-08T23:00:00.000-08:00

Cardinal Stritch

2011-02-07T22:59:00.000-08:00

Cardinal Stritch

2011-02-06T22:58:00.000-08:00

Cardinal Stritch

2011-02-05T22:56:00.000-08:00

Cardinal Spellman

2011-02-04T22:55:00.000-08:00

Are these white buckles shoes? And if yes, why have I never heard of those before? Can any reader offer any information?

Reader-Request

2011-02-03T22:48:00.000-08:00

Reader Kim asked me to post the following photos. They were made during a Solemn Pontifical High Mass in honor of St. Peter Canisius and celebrated by His Excellency Antonio R. Tobias, Bishop of Novaliches in Seven Joys of Mary Chapel of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate on April 27, 2010 at 10:30 am.

The cappa magna seems to be unusually shiny. As I understand, this is kind of an Asian thing, as people there like their silk this way.

[Source]

Funny thing about French prelates:

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Even in the late 19th/early 20st century they couldn't always really let go of those ancien regime hairdos.

Victor Cardinal Lecot, archbishop of Bordeaux from 1890 to 1908

A postcard of Clemente Cardinal Micara...

2011-01-07T03:28:00.000-08:00

... from his time as apostolic nuntio to Belgium (1923-1946)

Johannes Cardinal de Jong (1885-1955)

2011-01-06T03:02:00.000-08:00

Archbishop of Utrecht/Netherlands from 1936 to 1955. Created a cardinal in 1946.

Albert Gregory Cardinal Meyer (1903-1965)

2011-01-05T02:08:00.000-08:00

A photo of him as archbishop of Chicago.

Gerald Thomas Bergan (1892-1972)

2011-01-04T01:55:00.000-08:00

Archbishop of Omaha from 1948 to 1969.

Johannes Evangelista Cardinal Haller (1825-1900)

2011-01-03T01:52:00.000-08:00

Archbishop of Salzburg from 1890 to 1900.
Cardial priest of S. Bartolomaei in Insula in 1895.

Two more photos here.

Almost forgot...

2010-12-06T01:13:00.001-08:00

Advent/Christmas/New Years-Hiatus!

See you again mid-January!

I see that the number of followers is rising very slowly but constantly. Thank's for that! To all the new followers: This blog isn't updated on a daily basis, but only periodically. Whenever I have a stash of new material I release it, usually every two or three weeks.

If you want to contribute to what you see here, send in your photos of happy prelates, huge processions, catholic crowds and cappae magnae! Advice: Try to not send in photos you found on the internet (unless they are from really cryptic pages people aren't likely to find), because I think I already have pretty much every good photo from any webpage on my computer.

I know that this blog isn't the most widely read. But I also know that it seems to fill an important niche and people are appreciative of what is going on here. So I want to try and keep this thing alive for as long as I can.

Thanks for your co-operation!

Have a blessed advent season!

Leo

Tiara of Pope Paul VI

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Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini (1876-1958)

2010-11-17T01:39:00.000-08:00

Titular Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia in 1921

Titular Archbishop of Theodosiopolis in Arcadia in 1922

Apostolic Delegate to China from 1922 to 1935

Secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith from 1935 to 1953

Elevated to the cardinalate in 1953

Apostolic Chancellor from 1954 to 1958

Lourdes 1914...

2010-11-16T01:32:00.000-08:00

... The Eucharistic Congress

Fancis Cardinal McIntyre (1886 - 1979)

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Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948 to 1970

The man in the middle really doesn't need an introduction but I am not so sure with the bishop on the left. I know the face and I am sure one of my trusted readers also knows the name.

A Benedictine Abbot...

2010-11-13T10:31:00.000-08:00

... from the Monastery of Einsiedeln, Switzerland.

Maurice Roy (1905 - 1985)

2010-11-12T10:27:00.000-08:00

A picture of the Archbishop of Quebec before he became a cardinal. Vivid cappa!

Norman Cardinal Gilroy (1896 - 1977)

2010-11-11T10:16:00.000-08:00

Archbishop of Sydney from 1940 to 1971.

He won the "Australian of the year"-award in 1970! Imagine that today! A catholic bishop winning that award and not a feminist, vegan, homosexual or muslim!

A tiny but nice photo...

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... of Thomas Cardinal Tien.

Josef Cardinal Beran

2010-10-19T03:03:00.000-07:00

Archbishop of Prague from 1946 to 1969. Elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

Convicted in a show-trial by the Czech communists and imprisoned from 1949 to 1963.

Sorry for the watermarks.

Once upon a time...

2010-10-18T02:56:00.000-07:00

... in Portugal.

Carlos María Javier Cardinal de la Torre y Nieto

2010-10-17T02:51:00.000-07:00

Archbishop of Quito from 1933 to 1968. Elevated to the cardinalate in 1953. First cardinal of Ecuador.

William Otterwell Ignatius Brady

2010-10-16T02:49:00.000-07:00

Bishop of Sioux Falls (1939–56) and Archbishop of Saint Paul (1956–61)

Joseph C. Plagens

2010-10-15T02:45:00.000-07:00

Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie-Marquette (1935-1940) and Bishop of Grand Rapids (1940-1943)

Does anybody know anything about the dress of the two little guys? Are they the trainbearers?

Some more Canons from Fance

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José Alves Correia da Silva

2010-10-03T04:27:00.000-07:00

Bishop of Leiria/Portugal from 1920 to 1957

In color

With another prelate

Preaching

Preaching again. Check out the humongous microphone.

Official portrait

Another official portrait, this time with ermine.

Awesome Color Photo...

2010-09-23T07:48:00.000-07:00

... of Samuel Cardinal Stritch!

Thanks to reader Ed, who sent me the link!

Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (1891-1976)

2010-09-17T03:57:00.000-07:00

The Cathedral Canons of Aquino/Italy...

2010-09-16T03:52:00.000-07:00

... apparently used to have some serious insigniae to go with their choir dress.

[Source]

Once upon a time: Priestly Ordinations

2010-09-15T03:50:00.001-07:00

All photos from Italy

Rouen

2010-09-09T09:16:00.000-07:00

Two nice photos from Rouen, France. The first one shows the cathedral chapter. The second one shows Cardinal Sourrieu, archbishop of Rouen from 1882 to 1899. As you can tell, the photos are very old!

Cardinals Spellman and Tisserant

2010-09-08T09:13:00.000-07:00

A beautiful postcard showing Francis Cardinal Spellman (right) and Eugene Cardinal Tisserant. I don't know anything about the occasion.

Cardinal Muench

2010-09-07T09:08:00.000-07:00

Two super-small photos of Aloisius Cardinal Muench. But you can't say "no" to color!

Cardinal Gibbons

2010-09-06T09:06:00.000-07:00

James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 to 1921, surrounded by dignitaries and an altar server who apparently enjoys the situation.

Cardinal Dougherty

2010-09-05T09:02:00.000-07:00

A small but vivid photo of Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1918 to 1951.

Cardinal Cicognani

2010-09-04T08:59:00.000-07:00

Beautiful photo of Amleto Cicognani during his time as Apostolic Delegate to the USA, before he became a Cardinal.

Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani

2010-09-03T08:55:00.000-07:00

This photo of Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani was taken from a newspaper with a camera, hence the little white horizontal stripe.

Cardinal Rampolla

2010-09-02T08:52:00.000-07:00

Nice old photo of Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro

Photos from Ireland

2010-08-24T11:35:00.000-07:00

Super-reliable reader Fintan sent some more awesome pics from Ireland.

The first one is of Archbishop McQuaid together with a happy nuncio that I cannot identify:

The next two photos seem to show Cardinal MacRory, if I am not completely mistaken:

No idea who this bishop is. Nice cappa-wrap, though:

Thanks, Fintan! Great photos, as usual!

Everybody else: There's an example to follow...

Two nice photos...

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... of Samuel Cardinal Stritch.

Thanks to Ed for pointing out this one.

No idea who the bishop is. Readers...?

Somewhere in France

2010-08-09T22:51:00.000-07:00

Federico Cardinal Tedeschini and Bishop Cesbron of Annecy.

Pius XI

2010-08-08T10:14:00.000-07:00

Many thanks to reader Rip, who sent in some amazing photos from the 16th anniversary of the coronation of Pope Pius XI. Here is what he has to say:

I came across some photos from the fondo Giordani collections. If you find them interesting, you may be able to publish them..
They were taken during a Pontifical Mass in Capella Sistina on February 12, 1938 in occassion of Pius XI 16th anniversary from his coronation. The Holy Mass was celebrated by Giovanni Battista Cardinal Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy.

Thanks, Rip!