zuchetto

Gammarelli makes for example the zuchetto.

The mitre, zuchetto, and stole are generally worn by bishops when presiding over liturgical functions.

Another congregation of Canons Regular, the Canons Regular of the Lateran, wear a white zuchetto as part of their proper habit.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, who generally wears a white skull cap known as a "zuchetto," was given a Mickey Mouse cap with ears Friday.

Although the tonsure itself is obsolete, the wearing of a skull cap, called a zuchetto, in church to keep the head warm, which the fuller form of clerical tonsure led to, still survives.

In Roman Catholic liturgy, the funghellino (Italian for "small mushroom") is a short mushroom-shaped stand placed on the altar at a Pontifical Mass to hold the bishop's and higher prelates' skullcap (zuchetto) during the Eucharistic prayer.

A Latin Church bishop's choir dress, which is worn when attending but not celebrating liturgical functions, consists of the purple cassock with amaranth trim, rochet, purple zuchetto, purple biretta with a tuft, and pectoral cross.

Several melodies survive, and some of his songs have been recorded by Sequentia, Gérard Zuchetto and his Troubadours Art Ensemble, and the Martin Best Mediæval Ensemble, who released an album of songs by "Dante Troubadours".

He was thus secretary of the conclave during the election of Pope John XXIII, who almost immediately elevated di Jorio to Cardinal (by bestowing his scarlet zuchetto immediately after his election as Pope) although he had not been consecrated a bishop.

Priests may wear a simple black zuchetto, only outside of religious services, though this is almost never seen except on abbots, who continue to wear the black zuchetto; save for abbots of the Order of Canons Regular of Premontre, who wear white.