Sedia gestatoria
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The sedia gestatoria or gestatorial chair is a ceremonial throne on which popes were carried on shoulders of Sediari pontifici until 1978, which was later replaced outdoors in part with the popemobile
Pope Pius XII carried on a sedia gestatoria during the 10th anniversary of his papal coronation in 1949.
The sedia gestatoria of Pope Pius VII, shown in an exhibition at the Palace of Versailles
Drawing of the Chair of Saint Peter, used as a sedia gestatoria and dating from the 6th century
Litter (vehicle)
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The litter, also known as a sedan chair, palanquin or dooly, is a class of wheelless vehicles, a type of human-powered transport, for the transport of people.
Sedia gestatoria
…prior occasions, as in the case of Pope Stephen III, popes were carried on the shoulders of men. The sedia gestatoria is an elaborate variation on the litter. Two large fans (flabella) made of white ostrich feathers—a relic of the ancient liturgical use of the flabellum, mentioned in the Constitutiones…
A Turkish sedan chair (tahtırevan), 1893
A late-18th-century English sedan chair at Eaton Hall
Improvised sling-type litters on the Bataan Death March in the Philippines in 1942
Lady in a litter being carried by enslaved people province of São Paulo in Brazil, c. 1860