Fanon (liturgical clothing)

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Papal fanon, recognizable the different sizes of the two layers of fabric

The Fanon (also Italian Fanone or Fano ) or the Orale is a shoulder garment reserved for the Pope during the solemn papal mass. In the Middle Ages , the Manipel ( Hantfan ), the shoulder veil of the deacon and the hangings of the miter were often referred to as Fanon.

shape

In its version as the Pope's shoulder robe, the fanon is a circular, white silk shoulder robe with white and gold stripes approx. 92 cm in diameter. The edge is decorated with a thin gold border. The fanon consists of two layers of silk fabric that are only sewn together at the head opening. There is a gold embroidered cross on the chest. The inner (slightly larger in diameter) layer remains between the alb and the chasuble while the outer layer is shaped like a collar over the chasuble.

symbolism

Pope Pius X (standing) with the papal fanon during the episcopal ordination of Giacomo della Chiesa - who later became Benedict XV. was elected to his successor in the chair of Petri

The fanon, worn exclusively by the Bishop of Rome, symbolizes the “shield of faith” (cf. Eph 6:16  EU ) that protects the Church: the Pope himself.

Emergence

The fanon was created from a shoulder garment worn in the 8th century, which from 1200 became a liturgical garment reserved for the Pope . From the end of the Middle Ages onwards, the Amikt (humerale) was added to it. The shape common today was created in the 15th and 16th centuries. The name Fanon probably developed from the Latin pannus or German flag .

After Vatican II and the reforms in the papal liturgy under Paul VI. The fanon was not in use from 1965 and was worn only once by John Paul II in 1984 in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere . Pope Benedict XVI wore the fanon again at the papal mass on the occasion of a canonization on October 21, 2012, in the Christmas mass in 2012 and on the solemnity of the Epiphany in 2013.

literature

  • Joseph Braun SJ: Handbuch der Paramentik . Herder, Freiburg im Br. U. a. 1912, p. 88ff.
  • Ulrich Keller: Fano , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 6, 1974, Col. 1445–1450
  • Robert Lesage, liturgical vestments and implements , (= The Christian in the world. An encyclopedia, Vol. IX, 7). Paul Pattloch Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2nd edition 1962, p. 124.
  • Ulrich Nersinger, The Fanon - a special shoulder garment of the Popes . In: L'Osservatore Romano German, No. 44/2. Nov. 2012, p. 6.

Web links

Commons : Fanon  album with pictures, videos and audio files