From Scott Wells, back from a recent trip to France and Germany, this hot tip
Klerikale Kopfbedeckungen!!
Like this one! For Pizza Communion!? But that would be so Italian…
And this one! For, um, The Blessing Of the Chenille Bedspreads?
And this one, all in marion blue with rosebuds. With the little shiny capelet! Look how happy it makes the wearer!! You will be as smiley as this man!
Who speaks German and can explain this madness to us?
If I had a powder blue cape with rosebuds and a matching cap, I’d smile too!
I am German, unfortunately my English is not this godd. Nevertheless I will try to translate this special photos:
the red pizza hat is a Galero with tassels. This kind of cardinals-hat was disestablished by Pope Paul VI in 1969.
The next red Galero you see was rebuild in 2007 for the 200 years anniversary of the death of Cardinal Henry XI and was worn an 09/22/2007 in the chapel of St. John and Elizabeth Hospital in London for that special occassion.
The blue one is a Burla. This is a hat of the Universty of Coimbre in Portugal one receives for the honorary doctorate. In the picture you see Prof. Ole Fanger 06/14/2001.
The whole collection of klerical, spiritual and other meaningful hats is from Mr. Philippi who likes to collect hats for no special reason, but out of personal interest.
[Rina, this is wonderful!! Thank you so much! What fun that you were able to do this for all of us. Blessings, PB]
Anything to make you happy hun. And I’d be happy with a plain cap made of black stuff, or a saturno. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappello_romano
I´m also German. What exactly do you want to be translated?
Has Rina already done it?
i want the pizza hat.
My new book Kopfbedeckungen in Religion, Glaube und SpiritualitÅ t has been published recently. The publishing house is St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig. This hardcover book showcases the entire Philippi headwear collection and more in over 1,000 fascinating and exclusive photographs.
Picture of the cover
Description of the book
This is outstanding. I am going to look for the book at Harvard Divinity School when I am in the library. It occurs to me that the decline of headgear in culture at large is a great loss.