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 170 of clergy of all ranks, the Pope is borne in procession up to the balcony overlooking the piazza of St. Peter, where, in presence of the assembled people, the mitre having been first removed, there is placed on his head the renowned triregnum by the second senior Cardinal Deacon, who pronounces the words 'Accipe tiaram tribus coronis ornatam et scias te esse patrem principum et regum, rectorem orbis, in terrâ vicarium Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi, cui est honos et gloria in sæcula sæculorum.' And with this ends the coronation, after the giving of the benediction, which always follows every Papal appearance in public. The other ceremony is the taking possession by the new Pope of the Lateran Basilica, the Metropolitan Church not merely of Rome,