Photo: World's Largest Cappa Magna?

Pictured below has to be the largest "cappa magna" I've ever seen. A cappa magna (great cope) is "a ceremonial cloak having a long train and a silk or fur-lined hood, worn by cardinals, bishops, and certain other dignitaries" (source). How'd you like to be that altar server?

Who's wearing it? Cardinal Hoyos. Who also wears it? The new head of CDWDS (Catholic liturgy).

Dappled Photos has a huge compilation of Cappa Magna photos, NLM spotlights an awesome photo of the future Pius XII in his, while Deacon Greg posts an anonymous reader's defense of the tradition and, from the July archives, Gerald Warner describes "cappaphobia" as a "mental disorder afflicting progressive Catholics."

Plenty to see and read.