Papal Shoes

Mr. Adriano Stefanelli, the papal shoemaker (shop located at Novara, north of Rome) with Dieter Philippi, renowned expert on church headgear: http://www.dieter-philippi.de/.

Signor Stefanelli visited the Pope on August 23 at Castel Gandolfo to give him some new shoes.

http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/photostory/primopiano/2010/08/29/visualizza_new.html_1789020269.html?idPhoto=1

and

http://www.agi.it/in-primo-piano/notizie/201008291505-ipp-rt10030-papa_dal_calzolaio_dei_grandi_un_nuovo_paio_di_scarpe_rosse

Thanks, Dieter!

N.B. Would be nice, too, to see a return to the papal slippers. 

Here is the sad reason why Paul VI opted against them during the 1960s according to his former secretary, Mons. Macchi.

"When some Oriental bishops remarked that a golden cross decorating the papal slippers was a lack of respect for the Cross, he gave orders for it to be removed immediately."  -Paul VI by Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, p. 65.