Word: tiara
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...first rush of emotion had passed, Catholics in many nations came to the conclusion that the remarkable way in which John Paul assumed office might prove in the end his major legacy. At his installation Mass, John Paul insisted on humility and refused to be crowned with a tiara. St. Louis Church Historian John Jay Hughes says, "He abolished the 1,000-year-old ceremony with the tiara and relegated it permanently to the trash heap. It will be impossible to go back to this triumphalism of the past...
...enthronement," but simply a "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...
Speculation mounts over who will inherit Pope Paul's tiara...
...assumed the Papal Tiara in 1963, in the midst of the Second Vatican Council, that theater for the most profound process of change that the church had experienced in centuries. At the time, Cardinal Montini seemed just the man to steer the church through the turbulence that confronted it. Idealistic and sensitive, a thoughtful scholar and a connoisseur of theology, he had a reputation for being open to new ideas. He was a subtle diplomat with an acute knowledge of the inner workings of the church's machinery...
Time was when a man feeling loaded, fond and possibly guilty at Christmas time would hie himself to Tiffany or Cartier and buy his loved one a little something to make her feel like Cleopatra-an epithalamium of emeralds, say, or a modest suburban tiara. The trend in recent years, however, seems to have been away from the unilateral bauble and toward the his and her extravaganza, particularly of the shared, sensory and sensational sort...