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...recent Vatican Council session, he seriously suggested that his fellow bishops toss their jeweled episcopal rings, mitres and other symbols of office away. Just before returning to Brazil, Câmara candidly told Pope Paul that he should get rid of the sedia gestatoria (portable papal throne) and the flabella, the white ostrich feather fans carried beside it. Camara identifies with new-wave Catholic leaders, says: "The church must join the battle for development and social justice so that later people will not say the church deserted them in their hour of need because it was compromised by big business...
...Flabella Sirs: TIME was correct in stating "ostrich-plumed flabella" in its account of the procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi as opposed to accuracy- loving Fraser Nairn who insists that they were peacock fans. Recent newsreels of the event prove that. Perhaps Mrs. Drexel's peacock-feathered flabella have been retired. However, her gift to the pontiffs was conspicuously absent on this occasion. JOHN E. P. MclLVAINE Minneapolis, Minn...
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...issue of June 26 you mention the Feast of Corpus Christi at St. Peter's, and in speaking of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI you state: "Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella...
...interest of accuracy, these flabella are not ostrich plumes but are peacock feathers and were presented to the Popes by an American, Mrs. Joseph W. Drexel of Philadelphia, of the famous banking family of that name...