Word: pallium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost as soon as the white woolen pallium of office was draped around his shoulders, Pope John Paul II began asserting a vigorous personal style. Before week's end that style ruffled the Vatican's starchy bureaucracy, but it also charmed a watching world...
...solemn Mass to mark the start of his ministry as Supreme Pastor." John Paul asked not to be carried on the usual portable throne but to walk in procession. Most significant, he did not wish to be crowned with the triple-decked, bee hive-shaped tiara. Instead, a pallium, the white woolen stole symbolizing his title of Patriarch of the West, would be placed on his shoulders...