#pope paul

[dorky-jenny]

Crazy no one brought up this image from The JFK files

[adeleeh]

Chicago, 10th of September 2001 

[deadpresidents]

so is lbj now the first president to give a statue of himself to a saint?

Hey, nice callback to my old post about LBJ’s Unique Gift to Pope Paul VI!

Yes, now that Pope Francis has elevated Pope Paul VI to Sainthood, I guess that LBJ is the first President to give a bust of himself to a Saint.

And, now that he has been canonized, Pope St. Paul VI is definitely the first Saint to be photographed while realizing (in Latin, probably), “This dude legit just gave me a bust of his own head and it’s not a joke”:

[thriftstoresisyphus]

Pope Paul VI “Pope Paul In America”

[deadpopes]

Archbishop Óscar Romero and Pope Paul VI Are Made Saints

Pope Francis canonized the Salvadoran archbishop killed in 1980 by a right-wing death squad and the pope credited with leading the modernization of the church.

[deadpopes]

Pope Paul VI wearing a Papal tiara in 1963. Pope Paul VI's tiara was donated by Milan, where Giovanni Battista Montini had served as Archbishop prior to his election to the Papacy in the Conclave of 1963. Despite lacking the jewels and gemstones that dominated most of the previous Papal tiaras, Pope Paul's tiara still weighed over ten pounds and was worn on several different occasions, most notably at his Papal Inauguration. On November 13, 1963, Pope Paul VI symbolically surrendered the temporal authority of the Papacy by laying the Papal tiara on the altar of St. Peter's Basilica. Despite critcism from some Catholic conservatives, the Pope saw it as a personal gesture to help bring the Church closer to the people -- an important purpose of the Second Vatican Council which had been initiated by Paul's predecessor, Pope St. John XXIII, and continued with Pope Paul's election before wrapping up in 1965. (I'm also guessing Pope Paul wasn't exactly disappointed that he could avoid having to wear a heavy, uncomfortable, awkward-looking triple crown tiara on his head, as well.) Pope Paul's tiara is now on display at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Paul VI was the last Pope to wear the Papal tiara. Pope John Paul I refused to wear it when he was inaugurated in 1978 as part of his plan to remove some of the more outdated and monarchical trappings of the Papacy. Pope John Paul I died just thirty-three days after his election, but none of his successors were formally crowned or chose to reinstate the tiara. However, Catholic groups privately financed the design of tiaras for Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. They were presented to the Popes, but never worn. Pope Benedict XVI and his successor, Pope Francis, became the first Popes to not include the Papal tiara in the design of their Papal coat-of-arms. The Papal tiara can still be seen in the coat-of-arms of the Holy See, which is often used as an emblem of the Roman Catholic Church and Vatican City state.

[contac]

[road2ripped]

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Pope Paul VI