| Show THE POPES CROWN jewels have belonged to the earthly of the chuch belef the popes did not always wear tile three crown tiara at first they wore an ordinary miter with one crown around it then a second was add 1 to it and then a third when it took the nalof tri regno three king dorus this explains ity sometimes the simple miter Is used and sometimes bome times ballod the fr we of the form and splendor of the pontifical miters in pontifical in some of them weighed an much as ten pounds or even more they were decorated with cameos ana stones infald with figures rings and to the miter like drooping pearls crows and every other kind of then known in 1419 eugene IV had a till t d a in france by lorenzo geibe weighed five pounds of which over four pounds were of precious pearl and gems and cost over dubats ducats it was this kold miter abic eugene IV pledged to florence for which lie tb the greeks who inter ven anve in 11 a council of florence in 2439 till the benl enl of the last cen fury there were four precious miters in existence two made for plus V and paul V ike latter of whom spent on las and two ere made for paul VI the tuo first were kept in castle saint angelo and w to out for great cere monies when balcon out they were guarded bythe jeweler and were ae ans companie by tile same Jewe lerall through the procession and ceremonies of tile day even ulten placed on it papal altar they were ill unde r the le jewelers few elers custody the ther two miters were kept fit the sa crUty pins first r was made in 1790 it bad a gold foundation decorated with gold threads and pearls threaded with all ve ralso with x any other precious stones of all k ln il I 1 at the back it was decorated with tile pontifical arm the ribbons were also covered with gold pearls and diamonds this second miter of this pope was made in 1781 and was in the same manner only in a different pattern and the foundation was in all ver instead of gold aleth ese four miten were broken up b V I 1 lus va in 1797 in order to pay the french W hit was stipulated in the peare of tolentino not one of the miter 8 offered to leo xa kt for its jubilee 1 of tile value bf eithier one of the above stated miters but even tile e se n t ones are valuable espe clai 1 ly f or these days |
