Umberto Luciano Altomare (1914-1986)

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


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

French Bishops

Sorry for not posting for a week!

Reader JL sent in these nice portraits of French Bishops. Sometimes the perspective is a bit weird, but I think you still get the general idea.


Cardinal de la Tour d'Auvergne, Bishop of Arras. Ahh, glorious cappa (** sigh **)...


Bishop Leconte of Amiens


An unidentified bishop of Amiens


Cardinal Binet, Archbishop of Besancon


An unidentified Bishop of Troyes

Some 18th-Century Cappae

Henry Benedict Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York, the Last of the Royal Stuarts


Francesco Saverio Cardinal de Zelada by Anton Raphael Mengs


Louis René Édouard Cardinal de Rohan of "affair of the necklace"-fame


Silvio Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga, patron of the arts and manic collector.


Giovanni Andrea Cardinal Archetti


I don't know who that is. The face looks familiar somehow. Anybody?

I found some more postcards...

Sorry for not posting for four days. I keep having internet and electricity problems, so whenever I actually can go online, I use the time doing study-related stuff. Well, I hope that this time I will at least be able to post a couple of postcards from France:


Meet Thomas-François Boutry, bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay/France from 1907 to 1925. In this photo you get a half-decent look at the special kind of watered silk, which I have only seen on pictures of French prelates so far. While the bishop does not look particularly happy here, the next photos - all taken on the day of his consecration - make up for that:

Francesco Marmaggio (1870-1949)

I found a nice series of photos of Archbishop Francesco Marmaggi from his pre-purple years, when he was nuncio to Poland (1928-1935).





Mantelletta, Mozzetta and Ferraiolo! Go figure...


Über-Throne!








Bring back those fur-collared coats!


Flowers for the Archbishop...

It's been a while...

... since I presented a "Happy Prelate".



This painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud from the year 1708 is called "Cardinal De Bouillon opening the Holy Door". I don't really know if he was sitting while opening the Holy Door, but who cares. The sight of His Eminence in all his crimson splendor, silk train vividly wallowing towards the viewer, makes me cast away all doubt. The gentle smile and the rustling robes definitely earn him the "Happy Prelates"-tag.

The last installment...

... of the "Cardinal Quiroga Palacios"-Special is made up of miscellaneous photos that kind of evaded being categorized. Have fun!


Listening to a speech


Hanging out with the jerarquia


Serious


Giving his blessing


With cardinals Arriba Y Castro and Cicognani


"Woah! I'm supposed to ride in that?"


"Neat!"


With a crowd and two canons of Santiago


Again


During his visit to the Philippines


Again. Those last two photos should have appeared in yesterday's "happy prelate"-post, for obvious reasons.


The Philippines again, giving a speech (after receiving some honorary degree at the University of St. Augustine in Iloilo)


On a train...


One of the last portraits