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

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...

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

The Archbishop of Vienna meets the Papal Nuntio to Austria. Also: Check out the cathedral canons of Vienna in the background with their ermi...

Apostolic Delegate to the United Stats from 1958 to 1968

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

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

... and Cardinal Ruffini

... and Cardinal Mooney

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

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 cel...

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

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

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

A photo of him as archbishop of Chicago.