Three times the procession was stopped, while proceeding to the altar, and a bundle of flax lashed to a gilded staff was burnt before the newly elected pontiff, while a master of ceremonies said:
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Pater Sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.
Holy Father, thus passes the glory of the world.
Holy Father, thus passes the glory of the world.
as a symbolic caution to set aside materialism and vanity.
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