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Traditionally, he wears special red satin or velvet papal slippers indoors, and red leather papal shoes outdoors. The papal shoes were traditionally red, although Pope John Paul II would sometimes wear black or brown leather shoes. Pope Benedict XVI restored the use of the traditional red papal shoes, but Pope Francis has reverted to black shoes.
In the Roman Catholic Church, the use of the mitre above the shield on the personal arms of clergy was suppressed in 1969, [6] and is now found only on some corporate arms, like those of dioceses. Previously, the mitre was often included under the hat, [ 7 ] and even in the arms of a cardinal, the mitre was not entirely displaced. [ 8 ]
The pope's hat may refer to: Papal tiara, a crown worn by popes from the 8th century to the mid–20th century; Mitre, the traditional, ceremonial headdress of bishops; Zucchetto, a small skullcap worn by clerics; Camauro, made from red wool or velvet with white ermine trim, usually worn during the winter
Arms of Innocent VIII (Giovanni Battista Cybo, 1484–1492) as shown in the contemporary Wernigerode Armorial.The coat of arms of the House of Cybo is here shown with the papal tiara and two keys argent in one of the earliest examples of these external ornaments of a papal coat of arms (Pope Nicholas V in 1447 was the first to adopt two silver keys as the charges of his adopted coat of arms).
As the Roman Catholic Church considers him the first pope and bishop of Rome, the keys were adopted as a papal emblem; they first appear with papal arms in the 13th century. [15] Two keys perpendicular were often used on coins, but beginning in the 15th century were used to represent St. Peter's Basilica.
Pope Benedict XVI sporting a rare appearance of a camauro, December 2005. Pope John XXIII, the last pope to commonly wear a camauro, was buried wearing one.. A camauro (from the Latin camelaucum and from the Greek kamelauchion, meaning "camel-skin hat") is a cap traditionally worn by the pope, the head of the Catholic Church.
In the 1870s, Pope Pius IX, then in his eighties, found the other tiaras too heavy to wear and that of his predecessor, Pope Gregory, too small, so he had a lightweight tiara made also. In 1908 Pope Pius X had another lightweight tiara made as he found that the normal tiaras in use were too heavy, while the lightweight ones did not fit comfortably.
A cardinal's hat worn by St Jerome, depicted c. 1625 by Rubens. A galero (plural: galeri; from Latin: galērum, originally connoting a helmet made of skins; cf. galea) is a broad-brimmed hat with tasselated strings which was worn by clergy in the Catholic Church.