TRICORN OR CARDINAL'S CAP

Berretta with three tips or tricorn in pure silk moirè ponsò, lined in handmade cotton. For Cardinals. Cardinal red color. Only on request.

Our three-point Berrettes or Tricorns are made in Italy, by artisans who still use the ancient processes of processing of sacred vestments. The production times vary according to the product. Every product is made for you. 

To take your hat size you have to measure the circumference of the head about a centimeter above the ear.

The measure in centimeters thus obtained corresponds to the European system (EU), as shown in the table below.

In the assessment of the measure considered that:

1. Better a slightly abundant hat rather than a tight, with a small thickness or a small inner seam is easy to shrink it.

2. If you have a lot of hair you will have a greater tolerance, the hair acts as a natural "absorber".

3. If you have shaved hair or are bald, you will have to do more  Be careful to calculate your size and you will have less tolerance, you can switch from the feeling of "straight" to "largo" in a few millimeters.

4. "soft" hats and caps allow greater tolerance, 

5. "rigid" caps and caps need more attention in the calculation of the measurement. It is also useful to know the shape of your head. It can be "round" or "oval", communicating it at the time of purchase, we can conform the hat (e.g. a craft cylinder ) before sending it.

6. If you have a very round head avoid the rigid hats with all the stretches lowered, prefer those with raised back weaves

7. To slightly widen a hat sometimes is really small, slowly use your knee or fists of your hands, you can also earn a centimeter.

The Drinking is one of the many headdresses used by the Catholic clergy of Latin rite, Ambrosian and other Western minor rites. It has a roughly cubic shape and has three rigid fins and a bow on the top; the models with four wings are brought only by doctors in theology (but only in the classrooms of the university).

The models (with their respective colors) of berretta are different depending on the ecclesiastical degree of belonging.

Description

• Black without bow: regular chierici, admitted to the priest, Chierici and admitted to the seminar;

• Black with black bow: priests of the diocesan clergy;

• Black with red bow: Appropriations Superiors of the Dicasteries Roman Curia who do not have episcopal dignity, Holy Rota Roman, Promoter General of Justice and Defender of the Wine in Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, Apostolic Protonotarians Number, Chierici of the Apostolic Chamber and Appropriations of the Pontifical Antechamber; canonical.

• Paonazza con fiocco paonazzo: bishops

• Paonazzo tiled with bow paonazzo: bishops with assignment of apostolic nunciature.

• Red tiled with or without bow: cardinals

• White tiled: Pope - the last model is that belonged to Pope John XXIII, used for private walks.

Use

The cap is worn in such a way that an aletta points on the front, one towards the right and one on the back of the head. This headdress is worn in times defined by the rubrics even within the sacred celebrations, in processions and outdoor functions. It is special, however, the use that is carried out in the initial procession of the mass of episcopal consecration. Applicants to the episcopate make entrance into the cathedral wearing the parades Holy Mass and in charge of the paonazza berretta.

The beret is part of the set of ecclesiastical clothes and signs of clergy, priests, prelates, bishops, cardinals. Therefore if they are explicitly asked (in religious or civil protocols) to present themselves with the choral dress, they will have to have in charge as well as the Pumpkin if used habitually, even the cap.

The Cardinal Berretta

By extension it is said of receive the red cap when a member of the clergy is awarded the title cardinal. This way of saying, it is precisely to recall the moment in which the Pope puts on the head of the neocardinal the head of the head in object. As a rule, creation of cardinals happens publicly through Consisting.

For an ancient privilege, the leaders of the following Catholic States - Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, and perhaps some other - had in the past the right to impose themselves the cap on themselves Nunzio pontificio that it was created cardinal. In other words, the nuncio accredited to their government, which with the appointment to cardinal ceased from office and returned to Rome, or in a cardinal episcopal seat, the ruler or the president of the Republic could assign the cardinal's cap. The nuncio was kneeling in front of them, and in the presence of a mat of officials and state dignitaries the characteristic and unusual ceremony took place. Everything happened in the palace seat of the head of the state.

So it happened for mons. Fietta, whose president Giovanni Gronchi, in December 1958, imposed the hat in a solemn ceremony at the Quirinale. Mons. Fietta had been until that moment apostolic nuncio in Italy (a ambassador, that is, of the Pontiff). Similarly, the President of Portugal imposed the cap on his nuncio, and thus the Spanish Head of State, Francisco Franco.

A singular case was that of the newly appointed cardinal, mons. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli and for the figure of the head of the state, it took place in 1953, in Paris. In the Palazzo dell'Eliseo, the President of the French Republic, Vincent Auriol, imposed the cardinal's cap to mons. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, for nine years I nuncio in that diplomatic seat so important and, at that time, also difficult. V. Auriol was socialist and declared himself atheist. But he insisted on using this privilege, first exercised by the French kings. The new Cardinal Roncalli, from there to five years, would become Pope, with the name of John XXIII.

The Pope Paul VI, however, decided to abolish this privilege, in the early years of his pontificate.

Today therefore all cardinals receive the cardinal's cap from the hands of the pontiff, generally in St. Peter's Basilica or in the general hearing room Paul VI.

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