Even 60 years ago, new doors were crowned

In the book “A reporter in the papal court”, published in 1937, Thomas B. Morgan, then the head of the United Press Office in Rome, said that the opening ceremony of Pope Pius XI in 1922 was “more exciting and color” that inflammation of England.

The Wow worker was the moment the Pope was crowned. From the twelfth century until Paul VI stopped using the papal crown in 1964, the installation block included an official moment when the ink was crowned with a complex crown of gold and jewel.

Reverend Stefano Sandico, the co -author of a book on the papal rituals, said that the Pope did not wear a crown during the liturgical celebrations, “But only when entering and leaving some official celebrations.”

Paul VI stopped using Tiara and chose to wear a miter instead, as they did. The papal crown ended in the United States, where now In the Belgilica of the National shrine of the pure cord in Washington, DC

in He is a greatness during his inauguration The Mass on October 22, 1978, Pope John Paul II indicated that the popes were crowned in the past, but said that the focus should be elsewhere. He said: “This is not the time to return to a party and an object is a mistake, a symbol of the temporal strength of the Pope.”

Archive clips offer a glimpse of the concert’s greatness. 1939 film This includes the coronation of Pope Pius XII, the masses appear in the Saint Peter Square, where he was carried on a high throne through the atrium in Bazilica. Then the Pope moved to a balcony and crowned.

A film of coronation Pope John XXIII in 1958 It appears to be crowned, with the narrator’s announcement: “The deputy of Christ on the ground.”

The crown disposal was not the only way Paul VI looked at the Church’s opening to the modern world: He also moved The ceremony abroad To the area in front of Bazilica, where he was transferred via the crowd on a The throne of jam by Sodari, The Muslim Brotherhood, which still has a role in the Vatican – was pregnant pregnant who carried the coffin of Pope Francis.