biretta

The priest came out with his purple velvet biretta on his head, adjusted his hair, and knelt down with an effort.

It was that of a dark, thin man in a long black robe rather like a cassock; but the black cap on his head was of too strange a shape to be a biretta. It suggested, rather, some archaic headdress of Persia or Babylon.

They have what some perceive as a fetish for elaborate liturgical vestments and other externals, such as the routine wearing of cassocks and birettas. Some of these priests call themselves, and sometimes others call them, restorationists.

And red hats (birettas) and capes are being distributed in some unexpected places.

He also dresses up with capes and birettas reminiscent of the 1950's era.

The new cardinals were presented with scarlet-red birettas and gold rings at a grandiose ceremony in St.

THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF pantomime dames (in red birettas) illustrating Jodi Enda's informative but depressing article (Vol.

schmidt cold is the evening's breath claudius a magnificent tree with strong branches as the leaves announce the silence without a sound jean de lassus in the night the water lily is a lamp on a quiet lake where the green viper is a wet lightning pichette oh, solve me the riddle of life, the tormenting primordial riddle that so many heads before me have pondered heads in hieroglyph miters heads in turbans and black birettas periwigged heads, and thousands of other poor, perspiring heads of humans: tell me, what is the meaning of man?

No berets, no bearskins, No birettas or wimples, Young ladies look better When showing their dimples.

From Boston to L.A., the influential clerics of the American church have had their red birettas spun by the unraveling of the priest sex scandal.