Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
pallium .
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- noun Plural form of
pallium .
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Examples
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During this Mass, he imposed the pallia on the metropolitan archbishops appointed since the same date last year.
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The archbishops paid enormous sums to the pope for their badges of office (_pallia_).
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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The two archbishops went to Rome in 1071 to receive their pallia, and when (c. 1078) a demand was made through the papal legate, Hubert, for the payment of arrears of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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In objects of liturgical use we meet it on Biblical codices, on vestments, pallia, on leaden thongs inscribed with exorcising formulæs and it was signed on the foreheads of catechumens and candidates for confirmation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Honorius I, preserved in Bede, it appears that Honorius and his consecrator, in applying to Rome from their pallia, asked that, in order to avoid the delays and uncertainties then involved in a journey to Italy, whenever the occupant of one of the metropolitan sees should die, the survivor should have power to consecrate the successor, a request which the pope granted.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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O quoties rigidâ pulsabis pallia venâ! or with this quatrain of an old French poet:
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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“He distributed among various other persons, togæ and pallia, and made a law that the Romans should wear the Greek habit, and the Greeks the Roman habit;” that is, that the Greeks should wear the toga, and the Romans the pallium.
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* - ~ — Figuraiuuenilisnu - da cum modio in capste ft. pallia in laeuam proiedo.d. pateraro, f«
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"Ipse vero pretiosis vestibus pallia tua pilosa mutavit et antiquam nuditatem byssa et purpura texit.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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