Cardinals in Spain
By: ken88
tags: Cappa Magna, Cardinal, Catholic Cardinal, Catholic Images, Catholic Pictures, Roman Cardinal, Traditional Catholic Pictures
Category: Picture
Catholic Pictures
Handmaid of Hallowedground
By: ken88
tags: Cappa Magna, Cardinal, Catholic Cardinal, Catholic Images, Catholic Pictures, Roman Cardinal, Traditional Catholic Pictures
Category: Picture
[...] July 21, 2008 by ken88 (See Larger Pic) [...]
None of the prelates in this photo are cardinals. The central figure is likely an archbishop only, because his cappa magna train doesn’t appear to be watered silk, which only cardinals were allowed to wear then (now none of them can, thanks to Pope Paul VI’s 1965 directive). The rest are bishops since they all wear the requisite manteletta worn then, instead of the mozzetta they wear now with choir dress. That archbishop, incidently, looks like it might be Enrique (later Cardinal on February 18, 1946) Pla y Deniel, Archbishop of Toledo. You can check out http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bplayd.html, David Cheney’s comprehensive website for further details.