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The galero is the "red hat" with tassels cardinals received years ago from the Holy Father.
Cardinal Seán's Blog Cardinal Seán 2010
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One of the items recovered was from the coffin of Newman and which shows the heraldry associated with the cardinalatial dignity, the galero with fifteen tassles.
Cardinal Newman at Birmingham: His Relics (Part 2 of 3) 2009
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Nash is here represented in his famous white hat -- _galero albo_, as his epitaph has it; the ensign of his rule at Bath, the more than coronet of his social sway.
Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888
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Cardinals receive the red galero - the distinctive wide-brimmed hat for this office - in a consistory, the gathering in Rome specifically for the purpose of naming these new princes of the Catholic Church.
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I was also happy to announce that, earlier in the week, we had hung a galero in the cathedral in memory of Cardinal Humberto Medeiros.
Cardinal Seán's Blog Cardinal Seán 2010
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Cardinals receive the red galero - the distinctive wide-brimmed hat for this office - in a consistory, the gathering in Rome specifically for the purpose of naming these new princes of the Catholic Church.
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Tradition says that when the galero falls from the ceiling, the cardinal has entered into heaven.
Cardinal Seán's Blog Cardinal Seán 2010
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I'll bet the Inns of Court are full of Cardinals, and I'm even willing to bet that the few remaining male heterosexual priests in the Church of England are not unacquainted with a metaphorical galero.
British Blogs Raedwald 2010
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I'll bet the Inns of Court are full of Cardinals, and I'm even willing to bet that the few remaining male heterosexual priests in the Church of England are not unacquainted with a metaphorical galero.
British Blogs Raedwald 2010
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Jure Phoeniflis vaga penna criftis Stare labenti dubitat galero:
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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