Thanks Budwud for adding this. Is there a photographic genius out there who could show us what Papa might look like in a red velvet Camauro trimmed with ermine?
This link about the Zucchetto is also interesting:
www.ewtn.com/expert/answe...chetto.htm
Here are two extracts:
This link about the Zucchetto is also interesting:
www.ewtn.com/expert/answe...chetto.htm
Here are two extracts:
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The original use was purely practical. Clerics were tonsured, had a ring of hair removed off the top of their head when they embraced celibacy. The skull-cap was meant to cover it and retain body heat, an absolute necessity in the unheated churches and monasteries of the past. From this practical use it acquired the role of identifying ecclesiastical rank by the color of the zucchetto.
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White Zucchetto - Pope. This use developed in the 1500s. Previously the popes had their own distinctive cap, called a camauro. White became the papal color with the ascension of Pope Pius V, a Dominican, to the chair of Peter. He retained his Dominican habit. Religious orders whose habit is white, like the Dominicans and Norbertines, may also wear a white zucchetto.
I used to like the overcoats he wore when he was a Cardinal and walking across St Peter's Square; but I guess he maybe has to wear white now because he's the Pope.
