The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-28
A CARDINALS PRIVILEGES.
Curious Things About Mgr. Marti-
neIIi's New Dignity.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
When Mgr Martinelli received his red
cap on May s he attained to singular
privilege. that of turning the picture of
the Pope with its face to the wall. But
it can be done only once and he must
die to have it done. This is how it hap
pens:
In a Cardinals residence the principal
apartment, called the throne room, is
draped in red. In the place of honor Is
hung the portrait of the reigning Pope
under red silk canopy fringed with
gold. There is an armchair on the floor
reserved or turned to the wall, thus
reserved until the Pope should visit the
Cardinal.
When the Cardinal is dead his coffin
is placed for some hours beneath this
canopy and the picture of the Pope is
turned with its face to the wall. So with
the official red hat that the Pope will
give Mgr Martinelli when the later goes
to Rome some time hence to be invested
with the full plentitude Of his office. He
can never wear 1t again. 1t Will be put
on his coffin and then hung up in the
church of his title till his successor Is
appointed.
But he will have four other hats to
wear, so he need not lack for covering.
When he takes a walk he can use a
three-cornered hat of black felt tasselled
with Jet. When in rochet and mazetta
outside a church he wears a red felt
hat When he is in his cappa and under
a canopy he dons the pontifical hat In
the Corpus Christi professions he has
large hat of straw covered with red SILK
and bound with a ribbon of jet and gold.
He does not wear 1t. One OF his suite
carries it before him.
While in Rome etiquette does not allow
a Cardinal to walk. He must have car
rage and pair. When he goes out be-
yond the city walls an attendant follows
him Going to a public ceremony at the
Vatican he is entitled to a gala train OF
these carriages, and If a Prince to four
He is preceded by four servants in
livery embroidered with his arms, the
first carrying his hat, the second his
cushion and the third his red SILK UNI
brella. He is accompanied by his secre-
tary in black with "A silk mantle and
train bearer i'm a cassock of velvet SILK
with buttons of black velvet, girdle
of violet silk and a crocia or violet WOOL
len coat, with silk facings and snort
wide sleeves. This coat has tippet form
ing in front a long pocket for the Cardl-
nal's breviary and the documents he takes
with him to the Vatican. He also has a
gentleman in the costume of Henry H.
of France to carry his beretta.
In the Pope's Chapel the Cardinals
kneel at the benches on which they sit.
They wear at ceremonial functions
cassock with a train of cloth in winter
and of MORE in summer. Collars, shoes
and stockings are red. The girdle Is or
red MORE with gold tassels, the rochet
Of lace and the mozette the same as the
cassock In Rome the rochet II covered
with a red mantelletts; outside the city
II IL uncovered. The hat Is red felt with
gold tassels
A Cardinals walking dress Is always a
black simarra or cassock, without train,
with tippit and false sleeves. The cord
ing and buttons are of scarlet. AS Car
dinal Martinelli is a member Of the
Aupustinian order this will be the color
also of his ordinary costume Ike the
habit of the order. But the skull cap,
beretta and hat are always scarlet. me
ordinary walking dress II covered with
a ferraiolone OF violet MORE with collar
and facings OF the same materials. In
winter there Is also a cloak of violet or
scarlet cloth with gold cording.
The Cardinals di curia, or those resid-
ing I'm Rome, are entitled to a yearly in
come or Plato cardinalizio Of 1900 lire
about So 40O-which Is paid out OF the
Peters pence. The Cardinals dwelling
ordinarily have these special apartments:
AT the entrance, an antechamber for the
domestics. Above credence are the
arms Of the Cardinal under a canopy.
On the wall are suspended his two kneel-
ing cushions, one of red and the other
OF violet SILK, and his two umbrellas OF
the same colors. These last are for cover
ing him when he II making solemn
entry into church or following the
viaticum .bareheaded. The second room
Is the Cardinals secretary The third Is
called the antechamber OF the beretta,
because tho red beretta Is placed there
on a console before crucihx. Then comes
the throne room, which has already been
described.
When Cardinal asserts that the Pope
has said this or that or has given such
an order he must be believed on his
word without being Obliged TO prove II.
This a called the oraculum viVac vocls.