I’ve heard of “flying bishops”, but … not this
I saw at katholisches.info via the curiously-named Eponymous Flower an … what’s the word … oddity, hopefully unique. Not my translation:
The new Archbishop of Palermo, recently appointed by Pope Francis, Msgr. Corrado Lorefice, swung himself in a bicycle and drove through the presbyterium of his Cathedral.
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“Palermo. Primatiale Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption, Wednesday, April 27, 2016: Feast of the Athletes. Image: His Excellency Most Reverend Monsignor Corrado Lorefice, Archbishop-Metropolitan, Primate of Sicily, on a bicycle in the chancel of his cathedral..
The Archbishop was given a bike that he didn’t want to try outside the church. Instead, he rose immediately and in full regalia as celebrant, chasuble and miter, got on the bike and drove it through the presbytery of his episcopal church. The Cathedral of Palermo is not only where lay the Stauferkaisers Henry VI. and Frederick II. and the Norman King, Roger II. It is above all one of the oldest Christian places of worship in Europe. The area of ??the Cathedral was secret at the latest in the second century gathering of Christians in underground tunnels. Here the martyrs of the persecution of Christians were buried. The Christians gathered at their graves. In the early fourth century, the construction of the first cathedral was carried out. Under Pope Gregory the Great, the second cathedral was built around 600.
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The Bicycling Bishop?
The Peddling Prelate?
The Cycling Overseer?
The Velocipedal Vescovo?
Your Excellencies, please don’t do this… in the sanctuary your Cathedral? Or anywhere else in your Cathedral? Or in any church? Or anywhere at all while wearing Mass vestments? Please?
The moderation queue is definitely ON, especially for the immoderate.
