Word: pallium
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...PALLIUM Woolen band worn around the neck...
Almost as soon as the white woolen pallium of office was draped around his shoulders, Pope John Paul II began asserting a vigorous personal style. Before week's end that style ruffled the Vatican's starchy bureaucracy, but it also charmed a watching world...
...solemn Mass to mark the start of his ministry as Supreme Pastor." John Paul asked not to be carried on the usual portable throne but to walk in procession. Most significant, he did not wish to be crowned with the triple-decked, bee hive-shaped tiara. Instead, a pallium, the white woolen stole symbolizing his title of Patriarch of the West, would be placed on his shoulders...
...smoke, the master of ceremonies looked into the Pontiff's eyes and intoned the ancient warning: "Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi" (Holy Father, thus passes the glory of the world). In the course of the Mass, an assisting cardinal placed on the Pope's shoulders the pallium, a white wool band symbolizing his authority as Bishop of Rome, and the sacristan performed the grim ritual of tasting the wine to be used, as reminder of the days when Popes often died by poison. At the conclusion of the Mass a silk purse containing 25 ancient coins...
...wrists the Archbishop placed the Armills, or "Bracelets of sincerity and wisdom," over her shoulders was draped the golden Pallium, symbol of "the robe of righteousness and the garments of salvation." And to remind the monarch that "the whole world is subject to the Power and Empire of Christ our Redeemer," the Dean of Westminster presented her with the Orb, a golden globe surmounted by a cross...