{"id":32258,"date":"2015-05-19T13:56:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32258"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:59:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:59:56","slug":"raising-cardinal-georges-galero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/raising-cardinal-georges-galero\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Cardinal George&#8217;s galero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Francis-George-galero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32259 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Francis-George-galero-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Francis George galero\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Francis-George-galero-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Francis-George-galero.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Sunday, May 17, 2015, marked the month anniversary of the death of Francis Eugene Cardinal George, OMI, the emeritus archbishop of Chicago. The traditional\u00a0Mass known as the \u201cmonth\u2019s mind Mass\u201d was celebrated in Holy Name Cathedral. It completes the Church\u2019s funeral rites for the Cardinal.<\/p>\n<p>He served Chicago for 17 years he as its archbishop. The Cardinal&#8217;s motto was\u00a0<i>Christo, Gloria in Ecclesia<\/i> (To Christ be glory in the Church).<\/p>\n<p>There is a red hat, once worn by cardinals but no longer used, called a galero; this wide-brimmed hat with elegantly woven tassles hanging from it (see picture).<\/p>\n<p>George\u2019s silk hat now hangs alongside those of previous Chicago Cardinals Joseph Bernardin, John Cody, Albert Meyer, Samuel Stritch and George Mundelein.\u00a0The\u00a0tradition of bestowing the wide-brimmed hat when a man entered the College of Cardinals. Pope Paul VI replaced it with a silk biretta following the Second Vatican Council.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Cardinal George had two galeros but never wore them: one was gift to him from the seminarians of Mundelein seminary and the second one was given to him by friends just months before his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 17, 2015, marked the month anniversary of the death of Francis Eugene Cardinal George, OMI, the emeritus archbishop of Chicago. The traditional\u00a0Mass known as the \u201cmonth\u2019s mind Mass\u201d was celebrated in Holy Name Cathedral. It completes the Church\u2019s funeral rites for the Cardinal. He served Chicago for 17 years he as its archbishop. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/raising-cardinal-georges-galero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raising Cardinal George&#8217;s galero<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1907,32055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32262,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32258\/revisions\/32262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}