Female Religious Orders (2)

Benedictine

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Philippine

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Bernardine

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Apostoline

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Augustinian (Portuguese)

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Augustinian (Penitent)

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Augustinian

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Perpetual Adoratrix of the Blessed Sacrament

Male Religious Orders (2)

 Augustinian (formal habit)

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Augustinian (home habit)
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Barnabite
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Cistercian Benedictine
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Confederate Benedictine
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Vallombrosian Benedictine

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Silvestrian

Female Religious Orders

Basilian

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Cappuciness

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Carmelite

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Poor Clare

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Immaculate Conception

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Immaculate Conception

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Maronite

Male Religious Orders

Dominican

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Camaldolese
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Cappucin

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Descalced Carmelite
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Mercedarian
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Franciscan
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Trinitarian

Blessed Pius IX's Mitre

This could possibly be the Mitre that Pope Benedict will soon wear.

(Picture sent by a friend from Livorno who received it from a friend from Milano)

I thought that no one had worn the Mitre after Bl. Pius IX, but we can see that Pope John Paul II wore it once. Well, he had to wear something that had to go with the Eastern Mitre-crowns.


The Immaculate Conception Mitre seems somewhat smaller (compared to the ones worn by Pius XII & John XXIII). However, as seen in this picture of Pope Pius IX, it seems he had a preference for somewhat smaller Mitres (but not ugly like the modern ones). (The above is supposed to be a picture -not a painting- that was later retouched, but I cannot prove it).
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This picture (of vestments that belonged to Bl. Pius IX) again shows a beautiful Mitre that was smaller than the ones worn by Pius XII and John XXIII.

Enrico Dante

The last three excellent pictures were taken from John Paul's blog (orbis catholicus).

If you ever want to see the man at work, then you have to see the complete Coronation Mass of Bl. John XXIII. For this, of course, you would need to be somewhat familiar with the rubrics for the Solemn Papal Masses before 1965; otherwise, you will not get much out of the whole ceremony and you will not get an accurate idea of how dedicated Mgr. Dante had to have been to do what he did and in the way in which he did it.

This sums it all up very well!

Very well done, I think.

The final resting place of his human remains

Primacía y Supremacía Papal

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“No hay, y nunca hubo en esta tierra, una obra de política humana tan merecedora de examinación como la Iglesia Católica Romana. La historia de esa Iglesia ata las dos grandes eras de la civilización humana. Ninguna otra institución queda en pie que pueda llevar nuestras mentes a los tiempos de cuando el humo de sacrificios ascendía del Panteón y cuando las girafas y tigres rodeaban el anfiteatro Flavio…”

Coronación del rey Pepín (~800)

“…Las más gloriosas casas reales no son más que de ayer cuando se comparan con la línea de los Supremos Pontífices. Esa línea la podemos rastrear en sucesión intacta desde el Papa que coronó a Napoleón en el decimonoveno siglo hasta el Papa que coronó a Pepín en el octavo; y aún más allá del tiempo de Pepín se extiende la augusta dinastía hasta que se pierde en el crepúsculo de leyendas. La república de Venecia le seguía en antigüedad, pero esta republica de Venecia era moderna en comparación con el Papado. Y la republica de Venecia ya no existe, pero el Papado permanece. El Papado permanece, no en deterioro, ni en pedazos de antigüedad, sino que continúa llena de vida y de útil vigor…”

“…La Iglesia Católica aún ahora envía a los confines de la tierra misionarios tan celosos como aquellos que llegaron a Kent con Agustín y todavía confronta reyes hostiles con el mismo espíritu con que se opuso a Atila. El número de sus hijos es más grande que en previas eras. Sus adquisiciones en el Nuevo Mundo han más que compensado por lo que perdió en el Viejo. Su ascendencia espiritual se extiende sobre los grandes países que se encuentran entre las llanuras del Missouri y el Cabo Horn, territorios que, dentro de un siglo, no es muy improbable que contengan una población tan numerosa como la que ahora puebla Europa…”

“… Los miembros de Su Comunión son ciertamente no menos de ciento cincuenta millones y será muy difícil probar que todas las otras sectas Cristianas juntas formen un número de ciento veinte millones. Ni se ve ninguna señal indicando que el fin de su largo señorío se aproxima. Ella vio el comienzo de todos los gobiernos y todos los establecimientos religiosos que ahora existen y hay poca seguridad de que no está destinada a ver el fin de todos ellos...”

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“…Ella era magnífica y respetada antes de que los Sajones pisaron tierra en Bretaña, antes de que los Francos cruzaron el Rin, cuando la elocuencia griega aún florecía en Antioquia, cuando ídolos eran aún adorados en el templo de La Meca. Y podría todavía existir con vigor no disminuido cuando algún viajero de Nueva Zelanda, en medio de tanta soledad, se detenga sobre un pedazo del Puente de Londres para pintar las ruinas de la Catedral de San Paulo.”

~ Macaulay (Protestante) sobre “La Historia de los Popas” de Ranke

Devotion to Mary

In venerating and loving and praising Thee [Mary], I make willing obeisance to the flower of creation, to the crown of God’s ineffable works and wonders. Were I to refuse Thee the tribute of my love and piety, I should have to refuse it to every being that was not God, to the very heart of the woman who bore me in her womb.

Hypocrites those who, boasting of the Christian name, reject the veneration which Catholicism of every age has rendered Thee [Mary]; a veneration which is but a pale reflection of that homage which Thou didst receive from God’s own Messenger [Archangel Gabriel]! Will it not be lawful for the children of men to do what God Himself commanded to be done by the Hierarchy of Heaven?

For thirty years the Word Incarnate had no other manifest occupation than that of obeying with absolute unreserved His Blessed Mother. Now, there is no form of devotion, veneration, and love, no manifestation of piety, more deep and true than the loving submission of a child or a youth to his mother. And that, precisely, is the devotion and piety chosen by Jesus for the space of thirty years.

The Church in every age, and now more than ever, has professed such devotion to Mary that Protestants rabidly accuse Her of Mariolatry, as though we Catholics venerated the Blessed Mother of Jesus as God. It is gross calumny; for in this, as in everything pertaining to piety, we know that the Holy Spirit comes to the aid of Christ’s Bride, safeguarding Her from all error.

Papal Primacy and Supremacy

“There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheater..."

"...The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday when compared to the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable. The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic of Venice was modern when compared with the Papacy; and the republic of Venice is gone, and the Papacy remains. The Papacy remains, not in decay, not a mere antique, but full of life and useful vigor..."

"...The Catholic Church is still sending forth to the farthest ends of the world missionaries as zealous as those who landed in Kent with Augustine, and still confronting hostile kings with the same spirit with which she confronted Attila. The number of her children is greater than in any former age. Her acquisitions in the New World have more than compensated for what she has lost in the Old. Her spiritual ascendancy extends over the vast countries which lie between the plains of the Missouri and Cape Horn, countries which, a century hence, may not improbably contain a population as large as that which now inhabits Europe..."

"...The members of her communion are certainly not fewer than a hundred and fifty millions; and it will be difficult to show that all other Christian sects united amount to a hundred and twenty millions. Nor do we see any sign which indicates that the term of her long dominion is approaching. She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all..."

"...She was great and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still flourished in Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul’s.”

~ Macaulay (Protestant) on Ranke’s “History of the Popes”

"We therefore teach and declare that, according to the testimony of the Gospel, the primacy of jurisdiction over the universal Church of God was immediately and directly promised and given to Blessed Peter the Apostle by Christ the Lord…. And it was upon Simon alone that Jesus, after His resurrection, bestowed the jurisdiction of Chief Pastor and Ruler over His fold in the words, “Feed My lambs, feed My sheep. …If anyone, therefore, shall say that Blessed Peter the Apostle was not appointed the Prince of the Apostles and the visible head of the whole Church Militant, or that the same directly and immediately received from the same our Lord Jesus Christ a primacy of honor only, and not of true and proper jurisdiction; let him be anathema."

Dogmatic Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent and Vatican I