The Election and Coronation of a Pope. and the consistorial advocates in pure white copes on purple almuces. Before the shrine of Peter, the first cardinal-deacon chants: "Give ear, O Christ." The others respond:
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the high altar the Epistle is chanted by a Latin sub-deacon and afterwards by a Greek sub-deacon. The gradual is sung by the choir, the Gospel is chanted in Latin and then in Greek, after which the Pope is car-
CORONATION OF POPE PIUS II
"To our Lord, the Supreme Pontiff of the Church, as decreed by God." This is repeated three times, and then they chant: "O Savior of the World, help him!" This is followed by the Litany of the Saints, chanted by a Latin sub-deacon. On
ried, on the shoulders of twelve porters, dressed in scarlet, to the highest throne. The cardinal-archbishop of St. Peter's, with two canons of the same church, offer the Pope a purse of white damask, which contains twenty-five gold coins. This they ask him to accept as a honorarium for a mass
