TRIPLE CROWN

BASIC R.C. BELIEF

In early days, the Pope wore a simple bishop's mitre. About the 9th

century, a crown was added to it; later, a second crown and about 1365, a

third. Some take the triple crown to signify the pope's supreme authority

over every phase of life; others take it to symbolize his three fold office

as teacher, lawgiver, judge.

POST VATICAN II

In 1978, both John Paul I and John Paul II, for the first time in

centuries, refused to receive the crown at their investiture as pope.

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