Черен дим, бял дим: Как Ватикана казва на света, че има нов папа
След като кардиналите се затворят в Сикстинската параклиса, с цел да могат да гласоподават на идващия папа, очите на открито се обръщат към комин. It will release a plume of white smoke if a pope has been chosen, and black smoke if no candidate has won the required two-thirds majority of votes.
It’s a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, when conclaves were held at the Quirinale Palace, the papal palace across town that is now home to the Italian president.
In “Behind Locked Doors, ” a 2003 history of papal elections, Frederic J. Baumgartner wrote that the first evidence he found of smoke being used as a signal in a papal election was from 1823. The cardinals’ ballots were burned in previous conclaves, he wrote, but there was no record that the smoke was intended to inform the outside world of a new папа.
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