Exhibition at Sparkasse Saarbrücken

From 17th of March until 21st of April 2011 at the Sparkasse Saarbrücken are exhibited 100 selected pieces of the collection.

The exhibition is open every day from 8:15 until 16:00 and the admission is free:

Sparkasse Saarbrücken 

Neumarkt 17 

D-66117 Saarbrücken
Germany

Some impressions of the preview which took place on 17th of March 2011

 

The invitation (pages 1 to 4)

To enlarge, click on the picture.

Dieter Philippi during his opening speech

Roberto Consorsi

President Associazione Arca Petrina onlus 

Author of the project Tradizione e Magistero and coordinator of the events 

Palatine Guard of His Holiness 

Member of the Historical Committee of the Association of Sts. Peter and Paul, Vatican City 

Delegate in Italy of the International Catholic Relief Funds Inc., USA 

Expert in roman church dress and papal court costume

of Ditta Annibale Gammarelli, Rome during his technical lecture about the head coverings of the Roman Catholic Church (Pileolus, Biretta, Mitre, Tiara)

Frank Saar, member of the board of Sparkasse Saarbrücken - Roberto Consorsi - Dieter Philippi

The visitors

Maestro Bernhard Leonardy and his sister Eva Leonardy

The Saarbrücker Zeitung reports

(To enlarge, click on the picture)

Biretta Specialties

Here some fascinating biretta sights:

Monsignore Angelo Amodeo

Canonico del Capitolo del Duomo di Milano
is wearing a black biretta made of silk fabric with moiré effect, 3 horns (blades, wings)

and an amaranth pompon

Wolfgang Maria Hagl ,OSB, Abbot of Metten
wearing a black biretta with 3 horns (blades, wings) and a golden pompon

Biretta with 3 horns (blades, wings) and a green pompon,

 worn by the bishops in Haute Italie (Northern Italy) according:

Barbier de Montault, Xavier:
Le costume et les usages ecclésiastiques selon la tradition romaine, Band 1: Règles générales, le costume usuel, le costume de chœur, Letouzey et Ané, Paris, ca. 1900
page 235, note 3, (click on the picture to enlarge)

The biretta of Tuntenhausen

© picture: ?
Brocade biretta on the table left

© Praemonstratensian

Anglo-Catholic clergy tend to make up their own dress-rules, keeping vaguely to pre-conciliar norms and adding to them when it suits them. What they refer to as the Augustinian biretta is double height (14 cm) of a normal biretta. They get this from the Norbertine picture of the friar with the very tall biretta, and have adapted it to the black biretta.

© Domus Birretarum

© Domus Birretarum

© Facebook "Fans del Bonete"
Anthony Murley
"Un bonete augustino anglicano, en la tradicion del colegio de sacerdotes de la Sagrada Casa de Walsingham, como se puede apreciar en Fr Alfred Hope Patten, en los primeros anio de 1950."

The Augustinian Biretta or "Father Alfred Hope Patten Biretta" or "CSA (Colegio San Agustín) Biretta" is much more higher (14 cm) than the Ambrosian biretta.

Fr Patten (the priest wearing the cope in the middle) assisted by Fr Bales

and Fr Michael Smith

© Archives of The Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham

Augustinian Biretta or "Father Alfred Hope Patten Biretta" or "CSA (Colegio San Agustín) Biretta" made of black silk with moiré-effect, 3 horns (blades, wings) and a ruby pompon. Inside it is lined with red cotton.

Normal (7-8 cm)  -  Ambrosian (9-10 cm)  -  Augustinian (13-14 cm)

Biretta in black with 3 horns (blades, wings) and a tongue worn by friars of the

 Society of Jesus (S.J., Jesuits) according:

Barbier de Montault, Xavier:

Le costume et les usages ecclésiastiques selon la tradition romaine, Band 1: Règles générales, le costume usuel, le costume de chœur, Letouzey et Ané, Paris, ca. 1900
page 233, fig. 33, (click on the picture to enlarge)

Niels Stensen (Nicolas Steno)

wearing a high green biretta without wings

Biretta of a Subdeacon: only one horn (blade, wing) with a black pompon

made of woolen threads

© picture: eBay Store WSO-Mitres-Zucchetti-and-Stoles

Biretta in navy-blue made for Archdeacon of Aquarian Catholic Spiritual Community (Aquarian Catholic Liberal Church) with 3 horns (blades, wings) and navy-blue pompon

Biretta in navy-blue made for Archdeacon of Aquarian Catholic Spiritual Community (Aquarian Catholic Liberal Church) with 3 horns (blades, wings) and navy-blue pompon

Biretta in white silk with 3 horns (blades, wings) and rubi pompon,

inside lined with green cotton.

Worn by canons in equatorial areas together with the white "tropical" cassock.

[Not according the Roman Catholic guidelines.]

Biretta in white silk with 3 horns (blades, wings) and an amaranth pompon, 

inside lined with green cotton.

Worn by bishops in equatorial areas together with the white "tropical" cassock.

[Not according the Roman Catholic guidelines.]

© Bishop J. Anthony Wilson

Rhema Life Kingdom Worship Center, Killeen, Texas, USA

wearing an amaranth biretta with 3 horns (blades, wings) and a black pompon

© Official Service

Red biretta, 3 horns (blades, wings) and red pompon

Bicolor biretta (white-red) with 3 horns (blades, wings) and yellow/golden pompon

© Matthew F. Sheehan Co., Inc, Boston

Brocade birettas
These birettas, made of brocade fabric, 3 of them (with the orthodox patterns) I found in Sofia, Bulgaria

Sunshade birettas

© Orbis Catholicus 22nd of March 2011

A blue purple biretta with 3 horns (blades, wings)

© Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo

wearing a blue-purple biretta with 3 horns (blades, wings) and a blue-purple pompon

made of velvet

Birettas worn by the members of the "Guild of Our Lady of Hanworth" in the church of St George in Hanworth, near Feltham in Middlesex

The clergy established a "Guild of Our Lady of Hanworth". For their services they wear sky-blue shoulder-capes, and black moiré birettas with blue lining and blue tassels. The leader of the Guild wears a pale blue moiré biretta.

Birettas worn by the clergy of

ICRSP - Institutum Christi Regis Summi Sacerdotis

For more details see here.