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===={{lang|la|Cappa magna}}====
The {{lang|la|cappa magna}} ("great cape") is a voluminous mantle with a long [[Train (clothing)|train]], proper to [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinals]], bishops, and other honorary [[prelate]]s. It is a jurisdictional garment.<ref name=cathenCope/>

The {{lang|la|cappa magna}} is not strictly a liturgical vestment, but only a glorified {{lang|la|cappa choralis}}, or choir cope. It is worn in processions or in choir by those attending but not celebrating services. Its colour for cardinals is ordinarily red; for bishops it is violet. Cardinals and [[papal nuncio]]s are entitled to wear a {{lang|la|cappa magna}} of [[watered silk]].

The {{lang|la|cappa magna}} has a large hood, lined with [[Stoat|ermine]] in winter and silk in summer. It is made to cover not only the back, breast, and shoulders. The hood is functional and was in the past placed on the head and covered with the ''[[galero]]'', as when the pope created a new cardinal at a [[papal consistory|consistory]]. The hood is normally worn over the head only during [[Penitential Act|penitential rites]]. The few remaining cardinals who still use this garment wear red.

The ''[[motu proprio]]'' ''Valde solliciti''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/valde.htm |title=FIU.edu |access-date=2011-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060557/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/valde.htm |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> of 30 November 1952 decreed that the train of the {{lang|la|cappa magna}} should be shortened by about half, from {{convert|15|to|7|m}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/guide-xx.htm |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |access-date=2011-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026202321/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/guide-xx.htm |archive-date=2015-10-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The 1969 "Instruction on the Dress, Titles and Coats-of-arms of Cardinals, Bishops and Lesser Prelates" laid down that:<ref>[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/instruction69.htm FIU.edu]</ref>

<blockquote>The {{lang|la|cappa magna}}, always without ermine, is no longer obligatory; it can be used only outside of Rome, in circumstances of very special solemnity.</blockquote>

It is hardly ever used, except in celebrations according to pre-1969 liturgical books, as when deacons of the [[Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest]] were [[ordained]] in 2009.<ref>[http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/cardinal-rod%C3%A9-photos-meditation Cardinal Rodé photos: a meditation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101014073112/http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/cardinal-rod%C3%A9-photos-meditation |date=2010-10-14 }}</ref> The [[Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem]] uses the ermine-lined winter {{lang|la|cappa}}, because he is bound by the complex and unalterable rules of the ''[[Status quo (Holy Land sites)|Status quo]]'', an 1852 [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[firman]] which regulates the delicate relations between the various religious groups that care for the religious sites in the [[Holy Land]]. This anomaly is most evident at the Midnight Mass on [[Christmas Eve]] in [[Bethlehem]].