Some more Canons from Fance

The Cathedral Canons of Aquino/Italy...

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







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Rouen

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!

Photos from Belgium

Reader Carl from Belgium - one of the most loyal sender-inners - mailed me some great photos of bishops, canons and manlace.


Cardinal van Roey


Cardinal van Roey


Bishop Coppieters


Bishop Coppieters


Bishop Stillemans


Canon van Necke


Canon Dekeyzer


Canon de Haerne


Canon Nachtergaele


Canon von Necke


Canons during the funeral of Cardinal Mercier


Canons in procession


Unidentified canon


Unidentified canon


Unidentified canon


Unidentified canon


Canons with Queen Elisabeth in 1935


This looks like a French canon.


Lace close-up


Thanks for the photos, Carl, also in the name of all "Far Sight" readers!

Canons from England

Thanks to Fr. Selvester, who pointed out to me that English canons have some intersting habits. Here are examples:

Westminster:







Lancaster:





Southwark:

Almutiae

They are small and most of them have watermarks, but they are definitely worth posting! Check out these beautiful furry canons-capes (First three from Fribourg/Switzerland; last one unidentified):

Just to remind everyone...

... that French canons are great, too:

Happy New Year!

Hi Everybody! I hope you had a very blessed Christmas and I wish you a very happy 2010!

Well, I am back, so let's get started! Why don't we begin the new year with one of my favorite things: Cathedral canons from Spain!

Here are some photos from the installation of two new canons in the dioceses of Segorbe in November 2009:

Your wish is my command...

Also always high up on the wish-lists of readers are photos of canons. There's a couple more I found on the web the past weeks:


Valencia/Spain:





Sevilla/Spain:







Segorbe/Spain:




Orihuela-Aicante/Spain:





Cartagena/Spain:







Avignon/France: