"Receive the sacred pall, the plentitude of the holy pontifical office, in honor of the Lord God Omnipotent, of the most glorious Virgin, His mother, of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and of the holy Roman Church." The cardinal-deacon then fixes the three

three times. The Pope ascends the throne, cardinals take off their mitres and" bow be fore him. They are followed by the clergy in their respective ranks and robed in their ceremonial vestments. The pontiff takes off his mitre, and, going to the altar, chants' the "Introit, Kvrie" and

POPE LEO XII. IN ST. PETER S.

purple crosses of the pall with diamond clasps. The Pope mounts to the altar, palled, but without mitre, kisses the altar and the Book of the Evangel, puts incense in the censer and waves it before the altar. His assistants then put on his mitre and one of his cardinals swings the censer before him

the first words of "Gloria in Excelsis Deo," sit ting on the throne until the angels' song is sung. This reached, the cardinal-deacon de scends to the Confessional of Peter under the high altar, passing through the way of the hundred ever-burning lamps with the apos tolic sub-deacons, the auditors of the Rita,