Mancinelli hand-makes lightweight wool cassocks, sashes and zucchettos - Copyright AFP Peter PARKS Mancinelli hand-makes lightweight wool cassocks, sashes and ...
ROME (AP) — Two papal tailors and no conclave orders. The conclave that begins next Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the Vatican hasn’t ordered a ...
Raniero Mancinelli, 86, has been making papal clothes for decades out of his family-run tailor shop in Rome, just steps from St. Peter's Basilica. (Esma Çakir/CBC - image credit) After a fat pope ...
ROME – Two papal tailors and no conclave orders. The conclave that begins next Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the Vatican hasn't ordered a set of ...