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XI.—On the Annulus Piscatoris, or Ring of the Fisherman
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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To keep up the remembrance of the poor Fisherman of Galilee the Roman Pontiffs adopted the custom of sealing their private letters with a signet-ring which bore the device of St. Peter seated in a boat and drawing a net from the waters.
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page 141 note a “Duo clerici cameræ ad plumbum deputati Eminentissimo Decano pro Sacro Collegio recipienti præsentarunt genuflexi sigillum in quo insculptum erat nomen Innocentii X. et decesserunt. Sumpsit sigillum D. Phœbæus et omnibus Cardinalibus singulatim ostendit, et sumpto malleo et scalpro cum parva incudine quæ conservabatur in camerâ contiguâ, delevit et cassavit ab eo nomen supradictum, et sic deletum et cassatum coram omnibus Cardinalibus singulatim ostendit et retinuit apud se.”—Servantius.