Word: pallia
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...heart of the present cathedral, underneath the twisting columns and great bronze canopy of Bernini. By the time Vatican archaeologists, burrowing from below, entered the subsurface grave, the shrine had been altered almost beyond recognition: the two upper niches had been combined to form the present Niche of the Pallia, two small chapels, the Covered and Open Confessio, had been added, and the whole shrine was encased by the present high altar...
...Pallia are woven annually from the fleece of two white lambs, blessed in Rome on the feast of St. Agnes (near-Latin for lamb), and sheared at Easter. An Archbishop must petition the Pope for his pallium, is awarded it at a consistory...
...feast day of St. Agnes, two chaste white lambs will be brought to the Holy Father from the Church of St. Agnes in the Via Nomentana in Rome. Given his blessing, the gentle animals will be coddled until Easter when their wool is shorn, woven into the pallia which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates and archbishops as a symbol of their office...
...Agnes' Church, last week gazed at His Holiness, he blessed them again, patted them. Thereupon they were led away to be coddled and permitted to lie asleep in laps of legends old until Easter. Then they would be shorn and killed. Their white wool will be woven into pallia, the circular bands two inches wide with two twelve-inch pendants, which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates, archbishops...
...chasuble as a symbol of the secular authority delegated by the Holy See. Originally peculiar to the Pope, it is now given to cardinals and archbishops as the highest papal honor. As Archbishop Ratti, Pope Pius XI received the pallium for his work in Poland. Two to receive pallia a month ago were Cardinals Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, and Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...