Word: triregnum
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...triple crown, or triregnum, evolved in the 13th century, and its original meaning has been lost. Some authorities say that the Pontiff's three crowns represent the "teaching, ruling and sanctifying church"; others UPI that they are symbolic of the Pope's being the father of the Princes of Kings, Pontiff of the World, Vicar of Christ on Earth...
...World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter of a mile. Calling upon the world to follow the example of "the little sweet Martyr of Purity," he asked the young people in the crowd whether they would resist any attempt...
...priesthood. After mass he went next door, visited the Lateran Palace. Then back to the Vatican he went, as quietly as he had come. Next day the Pope, robed in the full majesty of his Pontificate, in cream-colored silk cloak, gold-&-silver-embroidered, crowned with the Triregnum (triple crown), closed his golden jubilee with a solemn mass in St. Peter's Basilica, where 70.000 Catholics cheered him. Then he beatified the relics of Father John Ogilvie, Scottish priest hanged by the Calvinists 300 years...
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