pallium
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Activity increased in the pallium, a higher brain region associated with complex behaviors.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026
And even the Roman toga was contrasted with the Greek pallium cloak, in an effort to articulate Roman identity.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Benedict has been laying in state without any papal regalia, such as a crosier, a silver staff with a crucifix, or a pallium, a band of cloth worn around the neck worn by archdiocesan bishops.
From Reuters ● Jan. 3, 2023
Bishop Piero Marini adjusting the pallium, a collar of lamb’s wool and part of the badge of office, of Benedict during his inaugural Mass on April 24, 2005, in St. Peter’s Square.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
After washing and anointing the body, the guests covered it with the pallium, or common cloak—the Romans used the toga—the Hebrews wrapped the body in linen.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
The neurons that fired in agreement with the crows’ action were located in the pallia, the researchers report today, also in Science.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 24, 2020
Their analysis revealed that the fibers in the birds’ pallia are organized in a manner strikingly similar to those of fibers in mammal cortexes.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 24, 2020
The scientists compared the images of the birds’ pallia with those of rat, monkey, and human cortices.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 24, 2020
Their white wool will be woven into pallia, the circular bands two inches wide with two twelve-inch pendants, which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates, archbishops.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is their special duty to sprout the wool that is woven into pallia for Papal bestowal on Cardinals, Patriarchs and Archbishops.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Also being buried with Benedict are the palliums, distinguished hallmarks of his clerical career.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
Also placed inside will be three palliums - bands of wool cloth worn around the neck by popes, archdiocesan bishops and other bishops with territorial jurisdiction, to signify their roles as shepherds of their flocks.
From Reuters ● Jan. 4, 2023
His Holiness had received him with open arms, and appointed him Apostolic Legate; but he declined to give the palliums, until they were formally demanded by the Irish prelates.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Here the good nuns weave their wool into palliums, which are subsequently worn by different metropolitans of the church.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
In 1151 Cardinal Paparo arrived in Ireland with the palliums which had been solicited by St. Malachy.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
