Camauro

Pope Benedict XVI sporting a rare appearance of a camauro, December 2005.

Pope John XXIII, the last pope to commonly wear a camauro, was buried wearing one.

A camauro (from the Latin camelaucum and from the Greek kamelauchion, meaning "camel-skin hat") is a cap traditionally worn by the pope, the head of the Catholic Church.

• 
  Pope Julius II
  (1503–1513)
• 
  Pope Urban VIII
  (1623–1644)
• 
  Pope Benedict XIV
  (1740–1758)
• 
  Pope Clement XIII
  (1758–1769)

References

• Philippi, Dieter (2009). Sammlung Philippi – Kopfbedeckungen in Glaube, Religion und Spiritualität. Leipzig: St. Benno Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7462-2800-6.

External links

• About the camauro
• The Philippi Collection
• About the skull cap Archived 4 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
• 'Santa Pope' woos Vatican crowds (BBC News, 22 December 2005))
• History of the Skullcap (PDF, p. 21–22)
• Various popes wearing the camauro on a church watching blog
• Pictures of Camauro and other clerical headgear, information and literature in German language
• Picture with summer-camauro in amaranth red silk, white camauro in silk-damask worn during the Octave of Easter and winter-camauro in red velvet