CAPUCHIN HOOD. - It is the upper part of the garment with which the ancients covered their heads and which was called cucullus.
It is used by monks, by religious and by the members of various associations or confraternities, and in some Congregations of monks it is used in choir in place of the biretta. Its form varies according to the different religious Orders; in some it is simply a head covering, in others it is instead a kind of mantellet or mozzetta that covers the head or the shoulders, as among the Friars Minor, or of an elongated shape as among the Capuchins, whence their name. In ancient times canons and prelates also covered their heads with it, and a memory of this survives in that small c. found in the mozzetta. The c. derives its origin chiefly from practicality: it served to cover the head in times of cold and rain.
The cappa magna or solemn cloak of prelates is also provided with a broad c. fastened at the back and which is used only in entirely extraordinary circumstances.
Tappi, Cesarini Anselmo. “Cappuccio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 716. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/cappuccio.
MLA
Tappi, Cesarini Anselmo. “Cappuccio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 716. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cappuccio.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_cappuccio,
author = {Tappi, Cesarini Anselmo},
title = {Cappuccio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {716},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/cappuccio}
}
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