THE PALLIUM.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1229, 11 February 1878, Page 3

THE PALLIUM.

The “Sydney Evening News” thus describes the ornament with which Archbishop Vaughan was invested a few days ago: “The pallium is an insignia of authority, and the name given to oue of the ecclesiastical ornaments worn by the Pope, by patriarchs, and by archbishops. The pallium is a narrow annular band of white woollen web, about three inches wide, upon which seven black crosses are embroidered. It is worn over the shoulders, or lightly encircling the neck. Two narrow bauds of wool bang from the main baud—one falling over the neck, the other over the back of the Archbishop. The wool of which the pallium is made was shorn from lambs kept in a convent in Italy, and the material wag woven by the nuns of St. Agnes, Rome. It was afterwards placed on the tomb of St. Peter and blessed by the Pope. Within three months of his appointment to the charge of a see every archbishop is obliged to apply to the Pope in person, or in proxy, for the pallium; nor is it lawful for him until he shall have received it to exercise any act of what is properly arch-episcopal, as con-tra-distinguished from episcopal jurisdiction. The pallium cannot be transferred from one archbishop to another, but must be received direct from the Pope. If it is destroyed, another of exactly the same material, and blessed in the same manner, must be procured. Thus Archbishop Folding received the pallium three times, twice it was burned with St. Mary’s Cathedral, and on his death the third (according to custom) was interred with him. The investiture of the pallium is a verji ancient ceremony, and its early history is full of interest. Its material of lambs’ wool and its use is held to symbolise the office of the “ Good Shepherd.” On the 22nd June, 1877, the pallium was granted to Archbishop Vaughan, as successor to the Venerable Archbishop Folding, and on the 29th June (St. Peter’s Day), of the same month, it was blessed by Pope Pius IX.