The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-01-06
4 CARDINALS ROBES
Distinctive Garb Required-ScarIet
Prevailing Color-Regulars Wear
Same Color as Habit.

SdnS SOtOr as F1dptt.
A Cardinal has four different hats
One is black felt, three cornered and
tasselled with red and gold, which he
wears with lis walking dress. The
second is red and is worn outside a
church when he is in rochet and mo-
zetta The pontifcal hat, which is
placed on his coffin and suspended
over his tomb is worn outside church
when he is in cappa and under a
canopy. The fourth hat is of straw,
of large size, covered with red silk
and bound with ribbon of red and
gold. It Is never put on the Car
dinal's head, but is carried before him
by a member Of his suite.
In ceremonial functions a Cardinal
wears cassock with train, of cloth
in winter and of MORE in summer.
The collars, stockings and gold
buckled shoes are red. The girdle is
rochet of lace and the red mozetta of
the same material as the cassock. He
wears gold ring with sapphire and
the three-cornered hat of red felt with
gold tassels.
A Cardinals walking dress is a SIM
MARIA, or cassock with train, of black,
| with cordings and buttons of scarlet.
The girdle, stockings and mantle are
red and the hat black with a twisted
| cord of red and gold. During Advent
and Lent and during vacancy of the
| Holy See the pontifical costume is vio-
let, with inings, cording and buttons
of scarlet. The ordinary walking
dress is covered with ferraiolone of
violet MORE, with a collar and facings
Of red MORE. In cold weather cloth
cloak of scarlet or violet with gold
cording is worn.
At Public Ceremonies.
| Cardinals, according to court eti-
quette, going to public functions at
the Vatican, have the right to gala
train of three carriages. They are
preceded by four servants in livery,
embroidered with their arms, the first
carrying the Cardinals hat, the second
| his crozier and the third his great
umbrella of red silk. The Cardinal is
accompanied by secretary in black
with silk mantle and by train
bearer in cassock of violet silk with
black velvet buttons. He also has a
gentleman in waiting wearing black
costume of the time of Henry II of
France, with sword and lace collar and
cuffs, who holds the, biretta.
| The arrangement of Cardinals
residence under the ancient regula-
ton is also curious. At the entrance
is the antechamber of the domestics,
in which, on a kind of credence COW
cred with red cloth and yellow lace,
are placed their tapped hats, sur
mounted by the arms Of the Cardinal
under canopy. On the wall are sus-
pended the two silk cushions, one red
and the other violet, needed at the
Cardinals alteration of the Blessed
Sacrament, and his two umbrellas of
the same colors in their cases. The
latter cover him when he is following
the Viaticum bareheaded or when he
4 is making a solemn entry into a
! church. The second room liz for the
Cardinals secretary; the third liz the
chamber of the biretta," because the
red biretta is placed there on a con-
sole before a crucifix
Then comes the throne room, all in
red, and in which in the place of
honor, under red canopy, is the
portrait of the reigning Pontiff. Be-
low the canopy is an arm chair re-
versed, which is thus reserved for the
Pope, should he visit the Cardinal.
Then comes the reception room next
the chapel and the private apartments
of the Cardinal
AS Cardinal-elect Falconio is mem
Der of the Franciscan Order, he will
not wear scarlet robe like his asso-
ciates, who are secular Prelates. His
costume will be Of grey silk, the color
of the habit OF his Franciscan
brethren. All Cardinals who are mem
bers of religious orders wear cos
tune that is the color Of the habits
of their respective orders. The skull
cap, biretta and hat, however, will be
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