Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — The Pope’s Triple Crown. [ARTICLE]

The Pope’s Triple Crown.

The tiara, or triple crown of the Pope, was originally a plain high cap, much like those in which the Doges of Venice are so often represented in old pictures and medals. It was first introduced by Pope Nicholas I. in 860. It is doubtful when the first coronet was added, but the second was placed by Pope Boniface VIII. in 1295 and th© third by Pope Urban V. about 1368. It has been held that the three crowns refer to the Holy Trinity, though that evidently could not have been the original idea or they would not have been added one after the other, with an intervening interval in. each case of many years. Others affirm that they denote the threefold royalty of the Bishop of Rome, one being the symbol of the temporal power over the Roman states; another, the spiritual exercised over the souls of men; and tHq third the authority over all the kings and potentates of Christendom.