Because it looks this darn good, that's why.Rich embroidery with gems. Made of fine white silk or silver cloth, embroidered with silk and gold thread, and studded with gems and precious stones. Lining is of red silk. On the ends of both fanons the prelate's coat-of-arms are embroidered in heraldic colors.
Just a minor correction - the strips of material hanging from the rear or the mitre (any mitre - precious, gold or simple) are called infulae, NOT fanons. The fanon was a papal vestment with a flowing train, now sadly consigned to history, which the pontiff wore over the soutane and under the alb. I believe it was tied at the waist. In pictures of pre-Vatican II Popes in Mass vestments (or even in a cope) the fanon can be clearly seen around the feet of the Pontiff.
ReplyDeleteYou are both wront! Google Papal Fanon!
ReplyDeleteYes, thanks; but my source said fanons:
ReplyDeleteClerical Dress and Insignia of the Roman Catholic Church by Rev. Henry J. McCloud (The Bruce Publishing Company: Milwaukee, 1948).
When did our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, will wear a fanone?
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