"Biretta" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... directions was found saying that he wished to be buried at Hare Street, in his own orchard, at the foot of his Calvary. My mother arrived on the Monday evening, and in the course of Tuesday we saw his body for the last time, in biretta and cassock, with a rosary in his hands. He looked strangely young, like a statue carved in alabaster, with no trace of pain or weariness about him, ...
— Hugh - Memoirs of a Brother • Arthur Christopher Benson |
