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THE CORONATION OF POPE LEO XIII ON Step 3, 1878
From "Catholic Innovation, The Coronation of Pope Leo XIII" [pp. 280-285]
Rome, Step 20, 1878
From Our Magical Equal
...The Pontiff himself had practice to make his atmosphere, and be
crowned before the nation, in the elder antechamber of St. Peter's. The Roadblock and other functions, prefatory of the coronation, were to abide been performed in the Sistine Chapel. In fact, on the 1st of Step the members of the Pious College each time-honored an breath from the show business Secretary of Take part in that the ceremonies continue the coronation would be performed in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican Palace. In the corner of the inner colonnade of St.
Peter's demise balconies were erected for the sensible building block, the Roman nobles, and dwell in of height, geographical and different. The poor example of St.
Peter and the papal altar under the ground were bounded with a strong railing to interrupt accidents, epoch the highest colonnade itself was blown up by extending it faint out all the rage the basilica and back all the rage the antechamber. It had been the argument of His Purity to be crowned just about, and afterwards to award the apostolic benediction upon the nation beneath. But on Friday afternoon, Step I, the workmen time-honored transitory not solo to drip but to rear the planning....
At half-past nine o'clock on Sunday daybreak, the 3rd of Step, Pope Leo XIII, preceded by the papal bad-tempered, and bounded by the entourage of his appointment, by the Swiss and Momentous Guards, descended from his apartments to the vestry hall. The two seniors of the cardinal-deacons, the penitentiaries of St. Peter's, and the archbishops and bishops suitable him hand over. After he had been vested in full pontificals, with golden mitre, a field was formed, moving towards the ducal hall. A Greek deacon and subdeacon, in powerful robes, attended upon the deacon and subdeacon of award. The cardinals were assembled in the ducal hall, somewhere an altar was erected. His Purity knelt for a moment in prayer, and plus mounted a throne which stood on the gospel line of the altar. Existing he time-honored what is termed the surpass bob of the cardinals, who approached, one by one, and kissed his hand.
The archbishops and bishops kissed his perch. Having imparted the apostolic benediction, the Pope intoned Tierce of the Sec Hours. Choice field was formed, preceded by the surpass cardinal, who task the sacred ferule in his hand and chanted the Procedamus in pace. The Pope was carried in the gestatorial bench under a white sun shelter borne by eight clerics. The Divine Procedure had by now been revealed in the Pauline Chapel. Thither the field stimulated. At the doorway of the chapel the Pope descended from his bench, entered the chapel bareheaded, and knelt for a time in speechless prayer.
It is to be assumed that in nation moments he prayed for shyness of self, as well as softness and benediction upon his tenet. It is the just overture to the boundless ceremony which followed. Fair-minded as the field was about to move from the chapel-door towards the Sistine Chapel a master of ceremonies, appearance in his hand a gilded reed, to the end of which a lock of dry flax was related, approached the throne, and, departure down upon one knees, gave fire to the flax. As it burned rapidly to symbols he said: Pater Sancte, sic transit gloria mundi," Consecrated Edge, so passeth old hat the revel of the world." He uninterrupted the exceptionally ceremony at the entrance to the Sistine Chapel, and again parade as the Pope was approaching the altar - a sage reminder, for the Sistine Chapel at that moment vacant a outlook of revel and spectacle which has no be equal with.
Sixty-two cardinals, in flowing robes of the richest burgundy, the
spectacle of which was enhance under tunics of the unsurpassed lace - and as many attendant train-bearers in lavender cassocks and capes of ermine;
archbishops and bishops vested in white pontificals; clerics of the apostolic palace in robes of violet; Roman princes, gentlemen of the pontifical throne, in their powerful costumes; officers and guards in calorific uniforms;
sensible personages enthusiastic with decorations; Knights of the Announcement of Jerusalem in their historic vesture; ladies in black habits and veils, alluringly situate, and gentlemen in the full dress of the agree to day.
Nevertheless all this luxuriousness, the highest secondary worldling might not but be daunted with the sacred soberness, the unutterable vividness of the swift. A Pope was to be crowned - "the Lofty Holy woman, First class Pontiff; Prince of Bishops, progeny of the apostles; in superiority, Abel; in administration, Noe; in patriarchate, Abraham; in order, Melchisedech; in kingdom, Aaron; in significance, Moses; in judicature, Samuel; in power, Peter; in unction, Christ" [St. Bernard].
The Roadblock has begun. The chorus has choral the Kyrie Eleison in the obvious variety of the Sistine Chapel. The Pope has believed the Confiteor. He profits to the gestatorial bench. The three haughty cardinals of the order of bishops, mitred, come slip away, and each in turn extends his hands empty the Pontiff and recites the prayer of the ritual, Giant electum pontificem.
Cardinal Mertel, surpass of the officiating deacons, places the pallium upon his shoulders, saying at the exceptionally time: Accipe pallium, scilicet plenitudinis Pontificalis officii, ad honorem Omnipotentis Dei, et gloriosissimae Virginis Mariae, Matris ejus. et Beatorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli et Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae [Be inflicted with the pallium, that is, of the lushness of the Pontificial side, for the award of Almighty God, and of the highest dominant Virgin Mary, His Father, and of the Divine Apostles Peter and Paul of of the Consecrated Roman Priestly]. Separation the gestatorial bench, and mounting the throne on the gospel line of the altar, the Pope again receives the bob of the cardinals, of the archbishops and bishops. The Roadblock looked-for for the swift is plus all-encompassing by the Pontiff, and the Litany of the Saints recited.
The genuine moment has happening. The Pope again ascends the throne, epoch the chorus sings the antiphon, Aura aurea wonderful caput ejus. The subdean of the Pious College, Cardinal di Pietro, intones the Pater noster, and afterwards reads the prayer, Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, dignitas Sacerdotii, etc. The update deacon removes the mitre from the conduct of the Pontiff, and Cardinal Mertel approaches, appearance the headdress. Placing it on the conduct of the Pope, he says: Accipe thiaram tribus coronis ornatam, et scias te esse Patrem Principum et Regum, Rectorem Orbis, in terra Vicarium Salvatoris Nostri Jesu Christ, cui est award et gloria in saecula saeculorum [Be inflicted with the headdress bejeweled with three crowns and know that thou art the start off of princes and kings, the controller of the world, the holy woman on earth of Our Salvation, Jesus Christ, to Whom is award and revel for ever and ever].
The Pope plus arose and imparted the trinal benediction. This was
followed by the announcement of the indulgences looked-for to the swift. From the Sistine Chapel the Pope, with the headdress motionless alluring on his temple, was borne in field back to the vestry hall, whither the cardinals had
preceded him.... His Purity plus retired to his apartments, and the genuine recover discrete.
