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:

A splendid portrait...

... of John Murphy Cardinal Farley (1842-1918), Archbishop of New York from 1902 until his death.



The portrait was painted by Alfons Mucha in 1904, before Farley's elevation to the cardinalate (1911), as the purple color of the robes also suggests.

The military pilgrimage to Lourdes in 1960

In 1958, French soldiers invited their former German opponents to gather with them in Lourdes to pray together and to pray with their families for peace in the world.

Since then, the annual gathering in Lourdes has grown to involve military personnel from 31 different countries.

Here are some photos from the gathering in 1960:

Maurice Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris, looking a bit skeptical.


The three Cardinals in this pgoto are (feft to right): Franz Cardinals König (Vienna), Maurice CArdinal Feltin (Pairs) and Bernardus Cardinal Alfrink (Utrecht).


Same Cardinals, same order, but with Feltin in cappa magna, which is fitting because of the three he was the least liberal.

Blessed Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster OSB (1880-1954)

I finally have enough photos to give Blessed Cardinal Schuster his own posting!





Ordained a priest in 1904, he became abbot nullius of St. Paul outside the Walls in 1918. He became archbishop of Milan on June 26, 1929. On July 13, 1929 he took the oath of loyalty to the Italian state in front of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, the first Italian bishop to do so, as required by the Lateran Treaty.




Schuster was created cardinal-priest by Pope Pius XI on July 15, 1929, receiving the title of Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti on July 18, 1929. He was consecrated on July 21, 1929 in the Sistine Chapel by Pius XI personally.

Two Benedictine abbots from England

Anscar Vonier, abbot of Buckfast Abbey from 1906 to 1938.


Bruno Hicks, abbot of Downside Abbey from 1933 to 1938. Thanks to Fr. Selvester for sending in this one!

Two nice snapshots...

... of Francis Cardinal McIntyre

Old newspapers are fun!

Especially when the title includes the words "Catholic" and "Illustrated". Example: "La Hormiga de Oro, Ilustración Católica", an illustrated Spanish weekly, whose covers show us all the things we like about the Church in general and the Spanish Church in particular:


Happy prelates


Elegance


Canons


The baciamano and the cappa


Coronations


(Future) Martyrs


Popes


Snapshots


The Universal Church


Pontifical Masses


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Marcello Cardinal Mimmi (1882 - 1961)

He was bishop of Crema from 1930 to 1933, archbishop of Bari-Canosa from 1933 to 1952, Archbishop of Naples from 1952 to 1958 and Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina-Poggio from 1958 to 1961. He was elevated to the cardinalate by Venerable Pius XII on January 12th, 1953.

Somewhere in Italy. This man apparently was a giant! And: Please, pretty please, bring back these buckled shoes! And the gold tassels! And the watered silk! And... EVERYTHING!


With the newly created Cardinal Montini in 1958.

Archbishop Burke in Artallo

A kind reader from Italy sent in this nice collection of photos of the Pontifical Mass by Archbishop Raymond Burke in Artallo, January 24th.

















Thanks, Riccardo!

Not quite a cappa...

I always liked the mandya or mantya of the Orthodox Churches.

As a Glossary of Common Terms in the Orthodox Church explains, the mandya is a "long, capelike episcopal vesture, usually purple in colour with ribbons and tablets which represent the law and the flowing streams of the Holy Spirit."

I find the cappa to be more 'elegant' and 'baroque' with exactly the right amount of unnecessary fabric rustling around the prelate's arms. But as far as the variety of in-your-face colors goes, it is hard to beat the mandya. Here are some great photos that a kind reader sent in:


Watered silk,...

... trains,...

... (and then some)...

... and color! Here's some purple.

I love this blue-turquoise-ish color! Green... hmm... well, alright...

More purple/violet/rose-ish

And even...

... black!

I wonder if there are any red mantyas?

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