Red For The Boston College Commencement 2009

For those of you who are aficionados of Catholic vestments, check out this photo of Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, at Monday's commencement ceremony at Boston College. The cardinal, a Franciscan Capuchin friar whose preferred garb is the brown hooded habit and sandals of his order, here is shown wearing a silk ferraiolo, which is an ecclesiastical cape used for solemn nonliturgical events, like formal dinners and academic convocations. The ferraiolo is over the cardinal's simar, or house cassock, a black wool garment, in this case trimmed in scarlet, the color signifying that O'Malley is a cardinal. O'Malley is shown entering the commencement ceremony with the Rev. T. Frank Kennedy, the rector of the Jesuit community at BC.

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