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Updated: June 14, 2025
The notion of suspended animation after death by no means expired with paganism. When Severus, Bishop of Ravenna, was about to die, he went in full pontificals to the tomb of his wife and daughter, had the stone removed, and bade the dead ones make room for him between them, and they obeyed.
So perished another of Michelangelo's masterpieces; and all we know for certain about the statue is that Julius was seated, in full pontificals, with the triple tiara on his head, raising the right hand to bless, and holding the keys of S. Peter in the left. Michelangelo reached Florence early in March.
These models had the bases solid, without projections, and on each base were four fluted Ionic columns, which divided the space into three compartments, a large one in the middle, where in each there was a Pope in full pontificals seated upon a pedestal, who was giving the benediction, and smaller spaces, each with a niche containing a figure in the round and standing upright, four braccia high; which figures, representing Saints, stood on either side of those Popes.
You, the hereditary oppressors of my race and my religion, you, who reduced one of the noblest peoples under heaven to live in the most fertile island on earth on the worst species of a miserable exotic, which no humane man, having anything better, would constantly give to his swine or his horses; you, who have made the most beautiful island under the sun a land of skulls, or of ghastly spectres; you are anxious, I presume, to get a Catholic bishop to abet your wholesale system of extermination to head in pontificals the convoy of your exiles, and thereby give the sanction of religion to your atrocious scheme.
He was met at the castle-gate by a procession of popish bishops and priests in their pontificals, bearing the host, which he publicly adored. He dismissed from the council-board the lord Granard, judge Keating, and other protestants, who had exhorted the lord lieutenant to an accommodation with the new government.
His Holiness the Pope comes forth in his pontificals, with twelve cardinals in purple canonicals for the action of my comedy is supposed to take place at the season of mutatio caparum, when their eminences are not dressed in scarlet but in purple therefore propriety absolutely requires that my cardinals should wear purple.
On these occasions the offending clerks were brought across to the church, where the Archbishop in full pontificals would hear their avowal of guilt in the nave, and then solemnly divest them of their robes and of their office at the west door. In 1270 came the first echo from the outside world since the reign of Stephen.
Because one great poet dispensed with 'pontificals, and yet brought the fire from heaven, henceforward 'pontificals' are humbug, and the wearer thereof but charlatan, despite 'the master yonder in the isle. Pegasus must pack in favour of a British hunter, and even the poet at last wear the smug regimentals of mediocrity and mammon.
You see, the Patriotic Party, including even those Pontificals whose private practice most discouraged all that sort of thing, began at once to urge propagation. But their propaganda was, as one may say, brain-spun; and at once bumped up pardon the colloquialism against the economic situation. The existing babies, it is true, were saved; the trouble was rather that the babies began not to exist.
Yet one reputable writer after another has repeated that lie of Vasari's, and shocked us by the scandalous spectacle of a Pope so debauched and lewd that he kneels in pontificals, in adoration, at the feet of his mistress depicted as the Virgin Mary.
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