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{{Short description|Ecclesiastical vestment worn by clergy}}
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[[File:Museum of Archdiocese in Gniezno - paliusz.JPG|thumb|The pallium of [[Pope John XXIII]], which is the current design, displayed in the museum of the [[Archdiocese of Gniezno]]]][[File:Innozenz3.jpg|thumb|[[Pope Innocent III]] depicted wearing the pallium around the breast in a fresco at the [[Subiaco Abbey#St. Benedict's Cave (Sacro Speco)|Sacro Speco Cloister]]]]The '''pallium''' (derived from the Roman ''pallium'' or ''palla'', a woolen [[cloak]]; {{plural form}}: pallia) is an ecclesiastical [[vestment]] in the [[Catholic Church]],{{refn|group=n|Pallia were also worn in the Western Church since before [[East-West Schism]], e.g. [[Saint Chrodegang]] in the 8th century AD.}} originally peculiar to the [[pope]], but for many centuries bestowed by the [[Holy See]] upon [[metropolitan bishop|metropolitans]] and [[primate (bishop)|primates]] as a symbol of their conferred [[Ecclesiastical jurisdiction|jurisdictional authorities]];{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=638}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Livingstone |first1=E. A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9780199659623 |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |last2=Livingstone |first2=Elizabeth A. |date=2013-09-12 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-965962-3 |pages=416 |language=en}}</ref> it remains a papal emblem.{{sfn|Schoenig|2006|pp=18–19}} It is symbolic of the lamb which Jesus carries on his shoulders in artwork portraying him as the [[Good Shepherd]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher= Arcidiocesi di Udine |url= https://www.diocesiudine.it/papa-francesco-benedice-il-pallio-che-sara-imposto-a-mons-riccardo-lamba/|title= Papa Francesco benedice il pallio che sarà imposto a mons. Riccardo Lamba |date= 26 June 2024 |quote=  liturgical vestment that metropolitan Archbishops have the right to wear in liturgical celebrations...The pallium - which recalls the sheep placed on the shoulders of Jesus the Good Shepherd, as in [[:File:Good Shepherd floor of Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia,1st half of the 4th century.jpg|the first Christian iconography also present in Aquileia]] - signifies the special bond with the Pope and also expresses the ecclesial power that, in communion with the Church of Rome, the metropolitan Archbishop acquires by right in his own jurisdiction.}}</ref>

In its present (western) form, the pallium is a long and "three fingers broad" (narrow) white band adornment, woven from the wool of lambs raised by [[Trappist]] monks. It is donned by looping its middle around one's neck, resting upon the [[chasuble]] and two dependent [[lappets]] over one's shoulders with tail-ends (doubled) on the left with the front end crossing over the rear. When observed from the front or rear the pallium sports a stylistic letter 'y' (contrasting against an unpatterned chasuble). It is decorated with six black crosses, one near each end and four spaced out around the neck loop. At times the pallium is embellished fore, aft, and at the left shoulder with three gold gem-headed (dull) stickpins. The doubling and pinning on the left shoulder likely survive from the (simple scarf) Roman pallium.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=638}}

The pallium and the [[omophorion]] originate from the same vestment, the latter a much larger and wider version worn by [[Eastern Orthodox]] and [[Eastern Catholic]] [[bishop]]s of the [[Byzantine Rite]]. A theory relates origination to the paradigm of the [[Good Shepherd]] shouldering a lamb, a common early Christian art image (if not icon); the ritual preparation of the pallium and its subsequent bestowal upon a pope at coronation suggests the shepherd symbolism.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=638}} However, this may be an explanation ''[[a posteriori]]''.   The lambs whose fleeces are destined for pallia are solemnly presented at altar by the nuns of the convent of [[Sant'Agnese fuori le mura|Saint Agnes outside the walls]]{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=638}} and ultimately the Benedictine nuns of [[Santa Cecilia in Trastevere]] weave their wool into pallia.

== Usage ==
At present, only the pope, [[metropolitan archbishop]]s within their province, and the [[Latin patriarch of Jerusalem]] wear the pallium. Under the [[1917 Code of Canon Law]], a metropolitan had to receive the pallium before exercising his office in his [[ecclesiastical province]], even if he was previously metropolitan elsewhere, but these restrictions were absent in the revised [[1983 Code of Canon Law]].{{sfn|Skinner|2011}} No other bishops, even non-metropolitan archbishops or retired metropolitans or current metropolitan archbishops officiating or attending any kind of Mass or religious ceremony outside their jurisdiction, are allowed to wear the pallium unless they have special permission. An explicit exception is made for the rarely realised scenario in which a person not yet a bishop is elected pope, in which case the bishop ordaining the new pope wears the pallium during the ceremony.<ref name="motuprop">{{harvnb|Paul VI|1978|p=3}}</ref>

== History ==
[[File:Aquileia, buon pastore, pavimento della basilica, 1a metà del IV secolo.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Christ as the [[Good Shepherd]], carrying a lamb on his shoulders. Image of a mosaic from circa AD 300-350 at the [[Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia]].]]
=== Origin ===
There are many different opinions concerning the origin of the pallium.  Some trace it to an [[Donation of Constantine|investiture]] by [[Constantine I]] (or one of his successors); others consider it an imitation of the Hebrew [[ephod]], the [[Humeral veil|humeral garment]] of the [[Kohen Gadol|High Priest]]. Others declare that its origin is traceable to a mantle of [[St. Peter]], which was symbolic of his office as supreme pastor. A fourth hypothesis finds its origin in a liturgical [[Robe|mantle]], used by the early popes, which over time was folded into the shape of a band; a fifth says its origin dates from the custom of folding the ordinary mantle-pallium, an outer garment in use in imperial times; a sixth declares that it was introduced as a papal liturgical garment (which, however, was not at first a narrow strip of cloth, but as the name suggests, a broad, oblong, and folded cloth).{{refn|group=n|{{sfn|Braun|1911}} states: Concerning these various hypotheses see Braun<ref>Braun, ''Die liturgische Gewandung im Occident und Orient'', sect. iv, ch. iii, n. 8.</ref> where these hypotheses are exhaustively examined and appraised.}} There is no solid evidence tracing the pallium to an investiture of the emperor, the ephod of the Jewish High Priest, or a fabled mantle of St. Peter. It may well be that it was introduced as a liturgical badge of the pope, or that it was adopted in imitation of its counterpart, the pontifical [[Omophorion|omophor]], already in vogue in the Eastern Church.{{sfn|Braun|1911}} It was bestowed on papal vicars (like the bishop of Arles, who represented the pope in the regions of Gaul) and other bishops with exclusive links to the [[Apostolic See]]. Also in this rank were missionaries sent with papal approval to organise the church among newly converted peoples. St. [[Augustine of Canterbury]] in seventh-century England and [[St. Boniface]] in eighth-century Germany fell into this category.{{sfn|Schoenig|2006|pp=18–19}}[[File:Raban-Maur Alcuin Otgar.jpg|thumb|right|[[Rabanus Maurus|Raban Maur]] (left), [[Alcuin]] (middle) and Archbishop [[Otgar of Mainz]] (right), wearing the pallium. From a 9th-century manuscript.]]
[[File:Gregory I - Antiphonary of Hartker of Sankt Gallen.jpg|thumb|alt=Manuscript drawing of a seated haloed figure in vestments, with a bird on his right shoulder, talking to a seated scribe writing.|Gregory I dictating, from a 10th-century manuscript (vestments include a pallium)]]

=== Early usage ===
It is unknown exactly when the pallium was first introduced. Although [[Tertullian]] wrote an essay no later than AD 220 titled ''De Pallio'' ("On the Pallium"), according to the ''[[Liber Pontificalis]]'', it was first used when [[Pope Marcus]] (died 336) conferred the right to wear the pallium on the [[Bishop of Ostia]], because the [[consecration]] of the pope appertained to him; [[Pope Symmachus]] did the same for [[St. Cæsarius of Arles]] in 513, and in numerous other references of the sixth century, the pallium is mentioned as a long-customary vestment. It seems that earlier, the pope alone had the absolute right of wearing the pallium; its use by others was tolerated only by virtue of the permission of the pope. References to the pallium being conferred on others as a mark of distinction date to the sixth century. The honour was usually conferred on metropolitans, especially those nominated [[vicar]]s by the pope, but it was sometimes conferred on simple bishops (e.g., on [[Syagrius of Autun]], Donus of Messina, and John of Syracuse by [[Pope Gregory I]]).{{sfn|Braun|1911}}

The use of the pallium among metropolitans did not become general until the eighth century,{{sfn|Braun|1911}}{{refn|group=n|Note that the date "between 840 and 850" given by the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 11th edition,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=639}} is a [[typographical error]] in reference to Boniface's letter of 747.{{sfn|Boniface|loc=Letter to Cuthbert}}}} when a synod convened by [[St Boniface]] laid an obligation upon Western metropolitans of receiving their pallium only from the pope in Rome.{{sfn|Boniface|loc=Letter to Cuthbert}} This was accomplished by journeying there or by forwarding a petition for the pallium accompanied by a solemn [[profession of faith]], all consecrations being forbidden them before the reception of the pallium. The [[oath of allegiance]] which the recipient of the pallium takes today apparently originated in the eleventh century, during the reign of [[Paschal II]] (1099–1118), and replaced the profession of faith.{{sfn|Braun|1911}}

The awarding of the pallium became controversial in the [[Middle Ages]], because popes charged a fee to those receiving them, acquiring hundreds of millions of gold [[Italian coin florin|florins]] for the papacy and bringing the award of the pallium into disrepute.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Griesinger |first1=Karl Theodor |title=The mysteries of the Vatican: or, Crimes of the papacy, tr. by E.S. |date=1864 |pages=105–106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R8YCAAAAQAAJ |language=en}}</ref> It is certain that a [[tribute]] was paid for the reception of the pallium as early as the sixth century. This was abrogated by Pope Gregory I in the Roman Synod of 595, but was reintroduced later as partial maintenance of the Holy See.{{sfn|Braun|1911}} This process was condemned by the [[Council of Basel]] in 1432, which referred to it as "the most usurious contrivance ever invented by the papacy".{{sfn|Rossa|1988|p=137}}

=== Modern use ===
[[File:John Paul II Brazil 1997 3.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Pope John Paul II]] vested in the pallium.]]

The use of the pallium is reserved to the pope and archbishops who are metropolitans, but the latter may not use it until it is conferred upon them by the pope, normally at the celebration of the [[Feast of Saints Peter and Paul]] in June. The pallium is also conferred upon the Latin Rite patriarch of Jerusalem. Previous traditions that allowed some other bishops to use the pallium were ended by [[Pope Paul VI]] in a [[motu proprio]] in 1978.<ref name="motuprop" /> A metropolitan archbishop may wear his pallium as a mark of his jurisdiction not only in his own archdiocese but also anywhere in his ecclesiastical province whenever he celebrates Mass.{{Sfn|Canon 437|1988}}

Although the pallium is now reserved by law and liturgical norms to metropolitans, a single standing exception has seemed to become customary: [[Pope John Paul II]] conferred a pallium on then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger when Ratzinger became [[dean of the College of Cardinals]] and therefore also [[cardinal bishop]] of Ostia, a purely honorary title and one without an archbishopric or metropolitanate attached. When Ratzinger was elected [[Pope Benedict XVI]], he continued that exception without comment by conferring the pallium on Cardinal [[Angelo Sodano]], the new dean.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2006/01/of-provinces-and-pallia.html  |title=Whispers in the Loggia |work=whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=March 2017}} The same was done by [[Pope Francis]] for Cardinal [[Giovanni Battista Re]] on 29 June 2020, when Cardinal Re became dean in January 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2020/documents/papa-francesco_20200629_omelia-pallio.html|title = Holy Mass and blessing of the Pallium for the new Metropolitan Archbishops on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June 2020) &#124; Francis}}</ref>

Worn by the pope, the pallium symbolizes the ''plenitudo pontificalis officii'' (i.e., the "plenitude of pontifical office"); worn by archbishops, it typifies their participation in the supreme pastoral power of the pope, who concedes it to them for their proper church provinces. Similarly, after an archbishop's resignation, he may not use the pallium; should he be transferred to another archdiocese, he must petition the pope for a new pallium. The new pallia are solemnly blessed after the First Vespers on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, and are then kept in a special silver-gilt casket near the ''Confessio Petri'' (tomb of St. Peter) until required. The pallium was formerly conferred in Rome by a cardinal deacon, and outside of Rome by a bishop; in both cases the ceremony took place after the celebration of Mass and the administration of an oath.{{sfn|Braun|1911}}

[[File:Papst Benedikt XVI., Pfingstmesse im Petersdom, 15. Mai 2005.jpg|thumb|right|[[Pope Benedict XVI]] in his distinctive papal pallium, prior to 2008]]
For his formal inauguration, Pope Benedict XVI adopted an earlier form of the pallium, from a period when it and the omophor were virtually identical. It is wider than the modern pallium although not as wide as the modern omophor, made of wool with black silk ends, and decorated with five red crosses, three of which are pierced with pins, symbolic of Christ's five wounds and the three nails, and it was worn crossed over the left shoulder. Only the Papal pallium was to take this distinctive form. Beginning with the [[Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul]] on June 29, 2008, Benedict XVI reverted to a form similar to that worn by his recent predecessors, albeit in a larger and longer cut and with red crosses, therefore remaining distinct from pallia worn by metropolitans. This change, explained the Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations [[Guido Marini]], came about after recent studies on the history of the pallium had shown that the oldest depiction of a pope wearing that type of pallium, that of [[Pope Innocent III]] at the Sacro Speco Cloister, seemed to be a deliberate archaism. Marini also stated that Pope Benedict had had a series of annoying problems keeping it in place during liturgical celebrations. This pallium would later be disposed of by Benedict when, while inspecting the damages caused by the [[2009 L'Aquila earthquake]], he visited the badly stricken church of [[Santa Maria di Collemaggio]]. Here [[Pope Celestine V]]'s remains had survived the earthquake, and after praying for a few minutes by his tomb, Benedict left the pallium on Celestine's glass casket. The last pope to abdicate willingly before Benedict XVI was Celestine V in 1294.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_quo/interviste/148q08a1.html|title=Il pallio papale tra continuità e sviluppo – Interview with Guido Marini, Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations|publisher=[[L'Osservatore Romano]]|date=2008-06-26|access-date=2008-06-26|language=it}}</ref>{{sfn|Kollmorgen|2008}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/59672/Papal-clothing-and-liturgical-practices#.VFHhv_mG9qU|title=Papal clothing and liturgical practices in Cardinal Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI Forum|work=Yuku|date=20 June 2010 }}</ref>

[[File:Benedict XVI Blessing-2.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Pope Benedict XVI]] wearing his second pallium in 2013]]
Although Pope Benedict XVI's second pallium was not actually made until 2008, the model for it already existed on [[coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI|his coat of arms]]. A precedent for Pope Benedict XVI's variations of the pallium was set in 1999 when Pope John Paul II wore a long Y-shaped pallium with red crosses for that year's Easter and Christmas<ref name="JohnPaulIIChristmas">{{YouTube|id=ItRzkAhN6IQ&t|title=Apertura Porta Santa in san Pietro, Natale 1999}} Retrieved 27 September 2019.</ref> celebrations. It was only used on those occasions and was created by [[Piero Marini]], the then-master of pontifical liturgical celebrations, who would also create Pope Benedict's first pallium.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://saintbedestudio.blogspot.mx/2013/03/papal-retrospective-blessed-john-paul.html|title=The Saint Bede Studio Blog: Papal Retrospective : Blessed John Paul II : 2|author=The Saint Bede Studio|work=saintbedestudio.blogspot.mx|date=12 March 2013}}</ref>

On June 29, 2014, after using Benedict XVI's second pallium for more than a year, Pope Francis restored the traditional pallium worn by popes prior to Benedict.<ref>{{citation |url=http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.co.at/2014/06/on-peters-day-francis-to-bishops-are-we.html | title="The Problem For Us Is Fear" – On Pope's Day, Francis Calls Bishops To "Follow" | publisher=[[Rocco Palmo]] | date=June 29, 2014 | access-date=July 2, 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Kollmorgen|2008}} [[Pope Leo XIV]] also used the present-day pallium for his inauguration in 2025, the first since Pope John Paul II's inauguration in 1978 (Pope Benedict XVI wore the large pallium as his first pallium during his inauguration in 2005, and Pope Francis used Benedict's second pallium on his inauguration in 2013.)

Pope Francis modified the ritual of conferring the pallium in January 2015: the pallia will be blessed on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul in [[Saint Peter's Basilica]]; the metropolitan archbishops, however, will receive those pallia in a separate ceremony within their home dioceses from the hands of the [[Apostolic Nuncio]], who is the personal representative of the pope in their respective countries.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/01/29/pope_modifies_and_enriches_pallium_investiture_ceremony_/1120538 | title=Pope modifies and enriches Pallium Investiture Ceremony | publisher=[[Vatican Radio]] | date=January 29, 2015 | access-date=January 29, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pope Francis will no longer impose the pallium on Archbishops |date=29 January 2015|url=http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/01/pope-francis-will-no-longer-impose-the-pallium-on-archbishops/}}</ref> Pope Leo XIV ended this practice in 2025, reverting to the traditional custom of the pope himself imposing the pallia on new archbishops.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catholicreview.org/pope-leo-to-return-to-practice-of-imposing-pallium-on-new-archbishops// |title=Pope Leo to return to practice of 'imposing' pallium on new archbishops }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pope restores tradition of imposing pallium on archbishops {{!}} News Headlines |url=https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=65958 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=www.catholicculture.org}}</ref>

== Style ==
[[File:Saint Apollenaris.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Portrait of [[Apollinaris of Ravenna]], wearing the pallium. Mosaic at the [[Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe]], Ravenna.]]
There is a decided difference between the form of the modern pallium and that used in [[Early Church|early Christian]] times, as portrayed in the [[Ravenna]] [[mosaics]]. The pallium of the sixth century was a long, moderately wide, white band of wool, ornamented at its extremity with a black or red cross, and finished off with tassels; it was draped around the neck, shoulders, and breast in such a manner that it formed a V in front, and the ends hung down from the left shoulder, one in front and one behind.{{sfn|Braun|1911}}
[[File:Pallium (Geschichte).jpg|thumb|left|200px|Development of the pallium]]
In the eighth century it became customary to let the ends fall down, one in the middle of the breast and the other in the middle of the back, and to fasten them there with pins, the pallium thus becoming Y-shaped. A further development took place during the ninth century (according to pictorial representations outside of Rome, in places where ancient traditions were not maintained so strictly): the band, which had hitherto been kept in place by the pins, was sewn Y-shaped, without, however, being cut.{{sfn|Braun|1911}}

The present circular form originated in the tenth or eleventh century. Two excellent early examples of this form, belonging respectively to [[Heribert of Cologne|Archbishop St. Heribert]] (1021) and [[Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne|Archbishop St. Anno]] (d. 1075), are preserved in [[Siegburg]], [[Archdiocese of Cologne]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pallien |url=https://www.schatzkammer-siegburg.de/textile-kulturgegenstaende/pallien/index.html |access-date=2021-06-01 |website=www.schatzkammer-siegburg.de}}</ref>

At first the only decorations on the pallium were two crosses near the extremities. This is proved by the mosaics at Ravenna and Rome. It appears that the ornamentation of the pallium with a greater number of crosses did not become customary until the ninth century, when small crosses were sewn on the pallium, especially over the shoulders. However, during the Middle Ages there was no definite rule regulating the number of crosses, nor was there any precept determining their colour. They were generally dark, but sometimes red. The pins, which at first served to keep the pallium in place, were retained as ornaments even after the pallium was sewn in the proper shape, although they no longer had any practical object. That the insertion of small leaden weights in the vertical ends of the pallium was usual as early as the thirteenth century is proved by the discovery in 1605 of the pallium enveloping the body of Boniface VIII, and by the fragments of the pallium found in the tomb of Clement IV.{{sfn|Braun|1911}}

== Significance ==
As early as the 6th century, the pallium was considered a liturgical vestment to be used only during Mass unless a special privilege determined otherwise, as evidenced by the correspondence between Pope Gregory I and John of Ravenna.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=638}} The rules regulating the original use of the pallium cannot be determined with certainty, but its use, even before the 6th century, seems to have had a definite liturgical character. From early times more or less extensive restrictions limited the use of the pallium to certain days. Its indiscriminate use, permitted to [[Hincmar of Reims]] by [[Pope Leo IV|Leo IV]] (851) and to [[Bruno of Cologne]] by [[Agapetus II]] (954) was contrary to the general custom. In the 10th and 11th centuries, just as today, the general rule was to limit the use of the pallium to a few festivals and some other extraordinary occasions. The symbolic character now attached to the pallium dates back to the 8th century, when it was made an obligation for all metropolitans to petition the Holy See for permission to use it.{{sfn|Boniface|loc=Letter to Cuthbert}} The evolution of this character was complete about the end of the eleventh century; thenceforth the pallium is always designated in the papal bulls as the symbol of ''plenitudo pontificalis officii'' ("plenitude of pontifical office"). In the sixth century the pallium was the symbol of the papal office and the papal power, and for this reason [[Pope Felix IV|Pope Felix]] transmitted his pallium to his archdeacon, when, contrary to custom, he nominated him his successor. On the other hand, when used by metropolitans, the pallium originally signified simply union with the Apostolic See, and was an ornament symbolizing the virtue and rank of its wearer.{{sfn|Braun|1911}}

== See also ==
* [[Omophorion]]

== Footnotes ==
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
* {{citation | title = Code of Canon Law regarding Metropolitan Archbishops | url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P1J.HTM | access-date = 2007-06-27 }}
* {{citation |author=Boniface |author-link=Saint Boniface |ref={{harvid|Boniface}} |title=''"Letter to Cuthbert, archbishop of Canterbury"'' |date=747 |url=http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/churchhistory220/LectureTwo/BonifaceLetters.html |publisher=translated by Talbot }}
* {{citation |ref={{SfnRef|Canon 437|1988}} |url=http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0017/_P1I.HTM |title=Canon 437, Code of Canon Law, 1983 |publisher=IntraText library |access-date=January 29, 2015}}
* {{citation |last=Kollmorgen |first=Gregor |date=25 January 2008 |url=http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2008/06/new-papal-pallium.html#.WLsvN3_arb1 |title=The Pallium&nbsp;– History and Present Use |publisher=New Liturgical Movement |access-date=29 October 2014}}
* {{citation |author=Paul VI |date=10 August 1978 |title=Motu Propio 'On The Conferring Of The Sacred Pallium' |newspaper=[[L'Osservatore Romano]] |edition=English weekly |page=3 |url=http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P6PALLIU.HTM |access-date=27 August 2006 |archive-date=6 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106235553/http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P6PALLIU.HTM |url-status=dead }}
* {{citation |last=Rossa |first=Peter de |year=1988 |title= Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy |publisher=Corgi |page=137}}
* {{citation |last=Skinner |first=Gerard |date=July 2011|title=The Pallium}}—a monograph published by the [[Archdiocese of Cardiff]] to mark the bestowal of the Pallium on Archbishop [[George Stack]] in July 2011
* {{citation|last=Schoenig |first=Steven A. |title=The pope, the pallium, and the churches |journal=America |date=January 16–23, 2006 |pages=18–19}}
*Schoenig, Steven A. ''Bonds of Wool: The Pallium and Papal Power in the Middle Ages'' (Washington, DC: [[The Catholic University of America Press]], 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-8132-2922-5}}.
 
'''Attribution'''
* {{CE1913|mode=cs2 |last=Braun |first=Joseph |wstitle=Pallium |volume=11}}
* {{EB1911|mode=cs2 |wstitle=Pallium |volume=20 |pages=638–639}}

== Further reading ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060513121118/http://www.catholicherald.com/cns/pallium.htm A tradition in evolution: Pallium signifies authority, loyalty] (Catholic News Service)
* [http://www.dieter-philippi.de/en/ecclesiastical-fineries/the-pallium Information about the sisters, weaving the papal Pallium]

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