This was the last time it was used, at his last Wednesday audience in 1978. 33 days a pope. You can see they had just had the red upholstery replaced with white. Then John Paul II was elected at age 58 and preferred to traverse the crowds on foot.
There were a number of portable thrones and chairs.
ReplyDeleteMost are in red and gold but there has always been a white cedia.
I have pictures of Pope Paul using it.
Jose J. de Freitas-Lopes