2-705-738 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Il Sommo Pontefice Leone XII', c1824. 'The Supreme Pontiff Leo XII'. 'In atto di portare il venerabile nella solenne Processione del Corpus Domini l'anno 1824'. ('The act of conveying the venerable [pontiff] in the solemn procession of Corpus Christi in the year 1824'). Pope Leo XII (1760-1829) is carried with great ceremony through the Vatican in Rome, fanned with ostrich feathers under a canopy, accompanied by priests and Swiss Guards, on the Feast of Corpus Christi.