Sunday, November 18, 2007

I didn't know that...

... until I saw Hallowed Ground
Did you know? That JPII was given a Papal Tiara by Hungarians in 1981? Kind of a mix between the older ones, and Paul VI’s hollowed-out tank shell. Too bad he didn’t wear it.

2 comments:

Dr. Peter H. Wright said...

That is news.

Well, obviously John Paul II never wore it.

No one is likely to present Pope Benedict with a tiara, but he might quite like to be given a camelaucum, which was worn by popes from the early eighth century
and which predates both the tiara and the mitre.

ServusMariaeN said...

Would it not be possible to submit a great worldwide petition to the Holy Father that he would again wear the tiara?

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