Cardinal Red Costume Small for Holy Pope Vicar Priest Church Fancy Dress

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During the period between a pope's death or resignation and the election of his successor, the day-to-day governance of the Holy See is in the hands of the College of Cardinals.

Cardinal Costume including a long red robe with an attached cape, a belt with a gold cross and fringe detailing. The cardinal in question then ranks in precedence with those made cardinals at the time of his in pectore appointment.To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford: Encyclopædia Americana: a popular dictionary of arts, sciences.

These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. In ecclesiastical heraldry, however, the scarlet galero is still displayed on the cardinal's coat of arms.In the 12th century the practice of appointing ecclesiastics from outside Rome as cardinals began, with each of them assigned a church in Rome as his titular church or linked with one of the suburbicarian dioceses, while still being incardinated in a diocese other than that of Rome. The change in color from fuchsia to scarlet in what he wore as a cardinal went from his head, where his zucchetto and biretta were placed, to the color of the cassock he wore which went to the tops of his feet.