{"id":52218,"date":"2015-02-12T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/02\/12\/meet-the-man-who-dresses-the-most-powerful-men-in-the-church\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:25:00","slug":"meet-the-man-who-dresses-the-most-powerful-men-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/02\/12\/meet-the-man-who-dresses-the-most-powerful-men-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man who dresses the most powerful men in the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 50 years, Raniero Mancinelli has sewn garments for popes and cardinals. And he just got a few new clients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RANIERO MANCINELLI<br \/>\nEcclesiastical Tailor<br \/>\n'This morning, a dozen came by. Some want one thing and some want another. I try to please everyone.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The vendor and his clients seem to disagree about who is getting the best deal.<\/p>\n<p>RANIERO MANCINELLI<br \/>\nEcclesiastical Tailor<br \/>\n'It's very inexpensive. It doesn't cost much.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>CARD. JOS\u00c9 LUIS LACUNZA<br \/>\nBishop of David (Panama)<br \/>\n'It's pretty, but he hasn't shown me the bill yet. The pain will come tomorrow, we'll see how it is.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The next Cardinal of Panama wears a size 8 skullcap, while his biretta is size 58. It takes one week and more than seven meters of fabric to make a cardinal's cassock.<\/p>\n<p>RANIERO MANCINELLI<br \/>\nEcclesiastical Tailor<br \/>\n'There are many cardinals who had already served as bishops, and we kept their measurements. However, I don't know some of the new ones, and I've taken their measurements.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Now, Manchinelli is just waiting for the ceremony to create new cardinals. He is particularly excited for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>There is very little to do for the ceremony, but Manchinelli will certainly have plenty of work in the future.<\/p>\n<p>MPI\/ATO<br \/>\nAA<br \/>\nSV<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp: MPI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 12, 2015. It takes a week and more than seven meters of fabric to make a cardinal's cassock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2jPYE7KcC1I","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bsestrecardenalint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}