Mario Zenari is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 2016. He has served his entire ecclesiastical career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, holding senior p
Zenari in 2022.
The pallium is an ecclesiastical vestment in the Catholic Church, originally peculiar to the pope, but for many centuries bestowed by the Holy See upon metropolitans and primates as a symbol of their
The pallium of Pope John XXIII, which is the current design, displayed in the museum of the Archdiocese of Gniezno
Pope Innocent III depicted wearing the pallium around the breast in a fresco at the Sacro Speco Cloister
Christ as the Good Shepherd, carrying a lamb on his shoulders. Image of a mosaic from circa AD 300-350 at the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia.
Raban Maur (left), Alcuin (middle) and Archbishop Otgar of Mainz (right), wearing the pallium. From a 9th-century manuscript.