Pope Paul VI was the last to use this privilege ... "Receive the tiara adorned with three crowns, and know that you are the Father of princes and kings, the ruler of the world, and the ...

But what interests us here is the element above them: the papal tiara, a triple crown worn by the new pontiffs after their ... There were problems, as three years earlier he had given a conciliatory ...

the troops discovered the papal tiaras. They melted down three of them and tore a 400-carat emerald from another, sending the jewel home to Paris, according to the Basilica of the National Shrine ...

The three-layered papal crown stood alongside the casket. Cardinals in their blood-red robes were present throughout the funeral rites. “The funeral has to make clear that the pope is dead ...