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Definition of Palliums
1. pallium [n] - See also: pallium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palliums
Literary usage of Palliums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Irish Hierarchy: With the Monasteries of Each County by Thomas Walsh (1854)
"... Bishop of Lismore and Legate Apostolic, arrived in Ireland in the year 1151,
bringing with him four palliums for the Sees of Armagh, Dublin, Cashel, ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1870)
"These palliums were of purple, and richly embroidered with gold. ... These palliums
brought in a nice round sum, for archbishops are usually rather old ..."
3. The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages by Horace Kinder Mann, Johannes Hollnsteiner (1914)
"petition which the Irish Church addressed to the Holy See that four palliums
might be granted to it. Eugenius at length decided to accede to the request, ..."
4. An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland: From the Introduction of Christianity by Michael John Brenan (1840)
"When it was known that palliums had been intended for Dublin and Tuam, ...
The council opened by the distribution of the palliums to the four following sees ..."
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