Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The gestatorial chair (sedia gestatoria [ˈsɛːdja dʒestaˈtɔːrja] in Italian, lit. \"chair for carrying\") was a ceremonial throne on which Popes were carried on shoulders until 1978, and later replaced with the Popemobile. It consists of a richly adorned, silk-covered armchair, fastened on a suppedaneum, on each side of which are two gilded rings; through these rings pass the long rods with which twelve footmen (palafrenieri), in red uniforms, carry the throne on their shoulders. On prior occasions, as in the case of Pope Stephen III, popes were carried on the shoulders of men.The sedia gestatoria is an elaborate variation on the sedan chair. Two large fans (flabella) made of white ostrich feathers —a relic of the ancient liturgical use of the flabellum, mentioned in the Constitutiones Apostolicae— were carried at either side of the sedia gestatoria.In the 1800s, Prince Alessandro Torlonia spent his Thursdays by bringing out a Sedia Gestatoria from Pope Leo XIII to carry the Santo Bambino of Aracoeli to the sick believers who are unable to come to the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli."@en }
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- Sedia_gestatoria abstract "The gestatorial chair (sedia gestatoria [ˈsɛːdja dʒestaˈtɔːrja] in Italian, lit. \"chair for carrying\") was a ceremonial throne on which Popes were carried on shoulders until 1978, and later replaced with the Popemobile. It consists of a richly adorned, silk-covered armchair, fastened on a suppedaneum, on each side of which are two gilded rings; through these rings pass the long rods with which twelve footmen (palafrenieri), in red uniforms, carry the throne on their shoulders. On prior occasions, as in the case of Pope Stephen III, popes were carried on the shoulders of men.The sedia gestatoria is an elaborate variation on the sedan chair. Two large fans (flabella) made of white ostrich feathers —a relic of the ancient liturgical use of the flabellum, mentioned in the Constitutiones Apostolicae— were carried at either side of the sedia gestatoria.In the 1800s, Prince Alessandro Torlonia spent his Thursdays by bringing out a Sedia Gestatoria from Pope Leo XIII to carry the Santo Bambino of Aracoeli to the sick believers who are unable to come to the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli.".