Word: pallia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Holiest of the lambs of Rome are those that frisk and bleat on the meadows of the Church of St. Agnes the Martyr, far out on the Via Nomentana. It is their special duty to sprout the wool that is woven into pallia for Papal bestowal on Cardinals, Patriarchs and Archbishops.* On the feast of St. Agnes last week, two of the most docile of the lambs of St. Agnes were carefully washed with finest soap, garlanded with flowers, trussed together with ribbons, laid in a grass-lined basket, carried to the Vatican...
...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...