ORBIS CATHOLICVS: Velletri: the Diocesan Museum...

Friday, December 19, 2008

Velletri: the Diocesan Museum...

Are the three cones for the morse of the episcopal cope?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: Why is all that stuff in a museum? Looks like a lot of it's still good!; 12:20 AM
Anonymous said...: As wonderful as it is to see these things, they shouldn't be in a museum, but being used ad majorem Dei gloriam!; 12:33 AM
Robin Ward said...: Three pine cones in a line on the morse: the liturgical privilege of a cardinal-bishop. Three pine cones in a triangle: the Papal penitential morse. The pine cone is also the pattern which decorated the white mitres of cardinals in the Pope's presence.; 12:39 AM
John Paul Sonnen said...: The Romanian girl tour guide there said on special days they still use some of the stuff there in the cathedral liturgies.; 4:57 AM
Anonymous said...: Robin Ward,

Wow, where can one find that information?; 1:30 AM

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