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Ch. 6: Religious Use of Rings

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THE RELIGIOUS USE OF RINGS             281
Gregory XIII abolished this custom; how long it had endured has not been determined.61
Certain other prelates of lesser rank than bishops have the right to wear rings, such as the protonotaries, for example, but as a rule they are not permitted to wear them while celebrating an ordinary mass, low or high; only when officiating pontifically may they wear pontifical rings. The ring commonly worn is much smaller than that accorded to a bishop and is set with a single stone, as is expressly ordained in the constitution Apostolicœ Sedis of Pius IX, dated in 1872.62
That the canons of a cathedral should generally be allowed to wear rings has been repeatedly decided ad­versely in the Roman Catholic Church, a recent in­stance being when the Bishop of Nicaragua submitted this question to the Sacred Congregation of Rites in Rome, because the practice had become common in ^Nicaragua. In reply he was informed that this must not be tolerated, except in case of a special indulgence from the pope, and the bishop was required to suppress the abuse. The reply was dated August 20, 1870, just a month before the entry of the Italian army into Rome and the cessation of the papal rule over the city.63
In a letter written December, 1751, Pope Bene­dict XIV relates the finding of a gold ring so small that it would fit the finger of a three-months' old babe,
01 " Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie," éd. by Dom Fernan Cabrol, vol. i, Paris, 1907, col. 2187, art. anneau by Leclercq.
62 X. Barbier de Montault, " Le costume et les usages ecclésiastiques selon la tradition romaine," Paris (1897), vol. i, pp. 163, 164.
63 Ibid., vol. i, pp. 164-170.
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