A hat for Mass in ChinaSourced
Uncovered heads could seem rude.
So priests wore a hat at Mass.
In 17th-century China, missionaries adapted Catholic practice to local ideas of respect by using a ceremonial hat called a jijin. Pope Paul V allowed the practice in 1615, and the hat remained in use into the early 20th century.
The form of respect
changes with place.
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