A New Pontificate

On this happy day, being also the birthday of Pope Saint John Paul II, the Pontificate of Pope Leo was liturgically inaugurated with the bestowal of the Pallium and the Fisherman's Ring in a Solemn Mass in Saint Peter's Square.

Feliciter, feliciter.

For this rite, the Pope was vested in a Marian chasuble used by his immediate predecessors and which had made for Saint John Paul II.

Ad multos annos !