tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post5393911624041550691..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: "Padre Santo, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-23810673985331738992010-01-03T15:51:24.093-05:002010-01-03T15:51:24.093-05:00Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your ol...Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-84734321341191895592009-11-14T07:50:09.522-05:002009-11-14T07:50:09.522-05:00I wonder if that's the same incredibly oversiz...I wonder if that's the same incredibly oversize cope that requires the pope to sit on a ten foot high throne. It has a name, but I forget what it is.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-86456534366238692632009-11-14T07:33:40.173-05:002009-11-14T07:33:40.173-05:00I wholeheartedly agree with Counterlight on the Ph...I wholeheartedly agree with Counterlight on the Pharaonic overtones here... Even the fans looks Egyptian to me ;=)Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-62553458263761773842009-11-14T02:01:57.854-05:002009-11-14T02:01:57.854-05:00The papal copes worn at some ceremonies must have ...The papal copes worn at some ceremonies must have been eight or ten feet long - designed to render the wearer incapable of making any movement unaided. <a href="http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/7083/papal3ke8.jpg" rel="nofollow">This scan</a> of John XXIII shows him being carted around with the Sacrament on a <i>sedia gestatoria</i> with built-in <i>prie dieu</i>, wearing a cope so long that it engulfs almost the whole of the <i>sedia gestatoria</i>.Lapinbizarrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686990585795363001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-66925782454224512122009-11-13T22:46:05.421-05:002009-11-13T22:46:05.421-05:00I should say man-lace by the hectare.I should say man-lace by the hectare.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-1533931192449179662009-11-13T22:36:06.493-05:002009-11-13T22:36:06.493-05:00All these old papal ceremonies look more than a li...All these old papal ceremonies look more than a little pharaonic to me. When he's carried around on that sedia gestatoria, he looks like something out of an ancient Egyptian painting down to the big over-size miter.<br /><br />Italian ceremonies always look to me like they're improvised and but a step from disaster, no matter how ancient. So many people seem to be walking, and running, around to find their place, or stopping to give last minute instructions, or to chat.<br /><br />Peu de trop at the very least. Man-lace by the yard here. Can you imagine this in color?Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-39158861206891769232009-11-13T20:47:19.309-05:002009-11-13T20:47:19.309-05:00Excellent idea for all leaders.
The present pope ...Excellent idea for all leaders.<br /><br />The present pope seems not to believe that the gloria of the mundi will transit. He'll take it with him and rule and reign from the great beyond.<br /><br />The rest of the ceremony is <i>un peu de trop, n'est-ce pas</i>? He's only a man.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-18132362536795557512009-11-13T17:03:36.409-05:002009-11-13T17:03:36.409-05:00I remembered this from watching a live telecast of...I remembered this from watching a live telecast of the coronation in 1958. It was the only part of the ceremony that lodged itself in my memory. I completely agree with you about wishing that the ceremony would be revived. I wonder when it was introduced. It seems to parallel the mid-medieval wall paintings of the <a href="http://www.paintedchurch.org/ldintro.htm" rel="nofollow">Three Living and the Three Dead</a>.Lapinbizarrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686990585795363001noreply@blogger.com