B.M.COOK wrote:
> Many years ago I read in a work entitled "The Fellow in the Cap" (by an
> author who later revealed himself as an enthusiastic anti-Catholic) that the
> mitre was originally the Phyrigian cap of Mithras which he considered was
> evidence for the infiltration and corruption of early Christianity by this
> pagan cult. His original information may have been correct even if his later
> interpretation is more open to doubt .....
Manuscript illuminations show bishops bareheaded up to the 11th century.
regards, h.w.
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