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JDPriestly

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3. Well, there goes the whole Catholic Church is always right thing.
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 10:48 AM
Feb 2013

Wasn't Jesus rather humble?

I don't recall any mention that Jesus wore a Pope's mitre.

And while we are on the topic of the Pope's mitre (hat).

The word ?ί???, mítra, (or, in its Ionic form, ?ί???, mítrē first appears in Greek and signifies either of several garments: a kind of waist girdle worn under a cuirass, as mentioned in Homer's Iliad; a headband used by women for their hair; a sort of formal Babylonian head dress, as mentioned by Herodotus (Histories 1.195 and 7.90). The former two meanings have been etymologically connected with the word ?ί???, mítos, "thread", but the connection is tenuous at best; the latter word is probably a loan from Old Persian.
Jewish High Priest wearing the mitznefet
Judaism

In ancient Israel, the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) wore a headdress called the Mitznefet (Hebrew: מצנפת, often translated into English as "mitre&quot , which was wound around the head so as to form a broad, flat-topped turban. Attached to it was the Tzitz (Hebrew: ציץ , a plate of solid gold bearing the inscription "Holiness to YHWH"[1] (Exodus 39:14, 39:30). Lesser priests wore a smaller, conical turban.
Byzantine empire

The camelaucum (Greek: ??????ύ????, kamilaukion), the headdress both the mitre and the Papal tiara stem from, was originally a cap used by officials of the Imperial Byzantine court. "The tiara [from which the mitre originates] probably developed from the Phrygian cap, or frigium, a conical cap worn in the Graeco-Roman world. In the 10th century the tiara was pictured on papal coins."[2] Other sources claim the tiara developed the other way around, from the mitre. In the late Empire it developed into the closed type of Imperial crown used by Byzantine Emperors (see illustration of Michael III, 842-867).

In Western Europe, the mitre was first used in ancient Rome by the Salii and other priests, and outside of Rome about the year 1000. Worn by a bishop, the mitre is depicted for the first time in two miniatures of the beginning of the eleventh century. The first written mention of it is found in a Bull of Pope Leo IX in the year 1049. By 1150 the use had spread to bishops throughout the West; by the 14th century the tiara was decorated with three crowns.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitre

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Message auto-removed odiumestpuritas Feb 2013 #1
Good Grief! Brainstormy Feb 2013 #2
I'm very sorry/delighted. paulbibeau Feb 2013 #4
Well, there goes the whole Catholic Church is always right thing. JDPriestly Feb 2013 #3
The pope not infallible? ananda Feb 2013 #5
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