Word: galerum
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After conferring the galerum rubrum (red hat) and cappa magna (Cardinal's cloak) on the six new Cardinals named last month (TIME, Dec. 2), His Holiness Pope Pius XI last week published an encyclical letter to the Catholic episcopacy. Excerpt: "The greatest malady of the modern age, the principal source of the evils we all deplore, is the lack of reflection. . . . There is only one remedy which I can propose. This is to invite tired souls to have recourse to spiritual exercises. . . . We must not neglect this supernatural breath which is life to many souls...
Sooner than the world expected (TIME, Dec. 28), on a bleak December day within a fortnight of his elevation, His Eminence Bonaventura Cardinal Cerretti, papal nuncio at Paris, got his red hat, his galerum rubrum, got it without the fanfare and spectacle so influential on the French...
...Vincenzo Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada. The day before Cardinal Hayes' arrival, before an immense throng of royalty, nobility, ambassadors and Holy Year pilgrims packed in the great basilica of St. Peter's, the five new cardinals heard Pius XI order from his raised throne: "Accipe galerum rubrum!" (Take the red hat!), and each had held over his head by a master of ceremonies the low-crowned, wide, curled-brim red hat of the cardinal. Brother cardinals caught them by the elbows and kissed them on both cheeks; the queerly plump Sistine choir sang; His Holiness departed...
...Accipe galerum rubrum," said Pius Pontifex Maximus on his throne...
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