Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The Papal Mantum

[If you want some kind of chronological order, work your way up when looking at the pictures = start with the last picture].
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DE MANTO PAPALI
Summus Pontifex quoties ad thronum solemnibus functionibus assistit, vel Basilicam sancti Petri more nobili ingreditur ante missam pontificalem, seu in consistoriis, utitur manto papali, id est amplo pluviali caudato super albam cum cingulo et stola, necnon cum falda. Mantum papale eodem modo conficitur ac pluviale romanum, sed longe ducitur infra pedes, ita ut dum Papa ambulat sustineri debeat tum a parte anteriori tum a postica parte.

Mantum non sequitur codicem colorum liturgicorum sed vel est album vel rubrum.

In functionibus pænitentialibus seu in colore violaceo vel pro fidelibus defunctis Papa adhibet mantum rubrum cum stola violacea subtus. (
Ius Pontificalium, 1956).
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...And Paul VI was the last Pope to be seen wearing a Papal Mantum...
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As Vatican II was coming to a close, Paul VI decided to wear a simpler form of the Papal Mantum...
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Two red ones and a white one