PAPAL shoes
12/05/2010
The Papal shoes are the red leather outdoor shoes worn by the Pope. (…) As did many noblemen, the Pope wore slippers (pantofole) inside his residences and leather shoes outside. The indoor papal slippers were made of red velvet or silk and were heavily decorated in gold braid, with a gold cross in the middle.
Early in his pontificate Pope John Paul II wore red shoes; however he quickly adopted wearing ordinary brown shoes. Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II were buried in the red leather papal shoes.
Pope Benedict XVI restored the use of the red papal shoes, which are provided by his personal cobbler in Rome.
The papal shoes,(…) are the only remnants of the former red color of the papal garments. St. Pope Pius V (1566 – 1572), who was a Dominican, changed the papal color to white, and it has remained so since.
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