Biretta – a square cap sometimes surmounted by a tuft. It is also worn by those holding doctoral degrees from some universities, and occasionally used for caps worn by advocates in law courts.
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The zucchetto (Italian for “small gourd”) is a small skullcap first adopted for practical reasons — to keep the clergy’s tonsured heads warm in cold, damp churches. Its appearance is almost identical to the Jewish Kippah, though its significance is quite different. Msgr. Georg Gänswein, the well-known, photogenic pope’s private secretary, is shown here wanting to play the well-known German back-street, illegal gambling game “under which zucchetto is the pope hidden?”
capello The saturno takes its name from the rings of Saturn. The pope sometimes wears a red one. The Saturno or Capello Romano has many variations, including tassels to tie it on. G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown was depicted as having worn one.
mitre A mitre, from the Greek μίτρα (‘headband’ or ‘turban’), is the ceremonial head-dress of bishops and certain abbots. Here Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is obeying St Paul’s injunction that a woman should keep her head covered in church (1 Cor 10:11) 🙂
Canterbury cap The Canterbury cap is Anglican head-covering, essentially the medieval birettum, descended from the ancient pileus headcovering. Make your own conclusions from the Anglican version being soft and foldable, whereas the biretta, its Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation equivalent, is rigid.
Hat tip 🙂 to Bethany Twins
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Fascinating.
And not one with a message from a commercial sponsor.
Is it Fashion Week in the Lectionary?
Mine must have a lamentable omission for I see no mention of it 🙂
Excellent tutorial on all things sartorial, Bosco! 😉
I still cringe every time I see the PB wearing that awful mitre. Ugh. They are bad enough without looking like a corporate logo…
Very interesting. I was raised Catholic but was never taught the proper terminology for these lids. Thanks for sharing. Ryan
My new book Kopfbedeckungen in Religion, Glaube und Spiritualität will be published in September 2009 (St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-7462-2800-6, 79 Euro, after January 1, 2010: 119 Euro). There can be found over 450 high-quality pictures of the headcoverings worn by the dignitaries of the different churches and religions.
Thanks-a-mundo for the article post.Much thanks again. Really Cool.
That mitre looks like an ad for some kind of energy drink.
Does anyone know where to find information on how to make a Canterbury cap?