Via Francigena
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The Via Francigena, also known as Francisca or Romea, is an ancient itinerary and pilgrimage route running from the cathedral city of Canterbury in England, through France and Switzerland, to Rome and
Sign showing the path near Ivrea, Piedmont
Various Via Francigena signposts in Italy
The Via Francigena crossing the Massif de Saint Thierry, Champagne
Pilgrims to Rome carved in a relief, Fidenza Cathedral (late twelfth century)
Pallium
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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
Via Francigena
…Amiata (Tuscany). At the end of the 10th century Sigeric, the Archbishop of Canterbury, used the Via Francigena to and from Rome in order to receive his pallium; he recorded his route and his stops on the return journey, but nothing in the document suggests that the route was then new, nor if he made the journey…
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.