Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1917 — The Pope’s Triple Crown. [ARTICLE]

The Pope’s Triple Crown.

Originally the tiara, or triple crown, of the pope was a plain high cap, much like those in which doges of Venice are so often represented in old pictures. It was first introduced by Pope Nicholas I in 860. Just when the first coronet was, added is a matter of uncertainty, but the second was placed by Pope Boniface VIII in 1295 and the third by Pope Urban V about 1398. It has been held that the threes crowns refer to the Holy Trinity, though that evidently could not have been the original idea, for they would certainly have not been added one after the Other with an intervening period in each case of many years. Some authorities contend that they dqpote the three-fold royalty of the bishop of Rome, one being the symbol of the temporal power over the Roman states, another the spiritual power exercised over the souls of men, and the third the authority over all the kings and potentates cf Christendom. —London Tit-Bits.