Macedonia’s Assembly President Gives Pope a Tiara

Judging from the photo, Pope Francis doesn’t seem impressed.

Andrea Tornielli, Vatican Insider: It is a headdress that has characterised the papacy for centuries. Sometimes it has been ogive shaped, others rounded and wider at the top, surmounted by three crowns. It is the tiara Popes wear on their coronation day as well as on particularly solemn special occasions. The last Pope to wear one, was Paul VI in June 1963. Read more here.

Correction: The headline of this posting mistakenly read, “Yugoslavia’s Assembly President Gives Pope a Tiara.” Yugoslavia, an artificial construction of the Freemasons who remapped the defeated Habsburg Empire after World War I, has not existed as a nation since its breakup in the 1990’s, though there was the brief existence of the much smaller “Federal Republic of Yugoslavia” during that time. Macedonia, now an independent Republic, was once part of Yugoslavia.