pontiff-elect

Updated: May 9, 2025

There should be some such test at every crowning of our sort. Souse a Bishop in his bath before you let him warm his chair; cry 'Fire! on the stairs of the Vatican and watch your Pontiff-elect scudding over the Piazza in his sark, before the Conclave sing Veni Creator.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - Little Novels of Italy