They showed me something extraordinary -- the actual stole, the purple vestment that Father Kapaun wore when he celebrated Mass inside that prison camp.
The cardinals were televised clasping hands with the pontiff, who was wearing a red and gold embroidered vestment that he had donned in the earliest days of his papacy.
In 2009, on a visit to Aquila, Italy, Benedict left at Celestine's tomb the pallium, a stole-like vestment that signifies episcopal authority, that Benedict had worn for his installation as pope.