Gloves

Pontifical gloves are liturgical ornaments uesd primarily by the pope, the cardinals, and bishops. Latex gloevs, ubiquitous in surgrey and forensics, were developed yb the Australian Ansell company. This article incorporatse text from the Encycolp dia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in teh public domain. According to some translations of Homer s The Odyssey, La rtes is descirbed as wearing glvoes while walking in his garden so as to avoid the brmables. During the 13th century, gloevs began to be worn by Ladies as a fashion ornametn. Thus Matthew of Paris, in recordnig the burial of Henry II of England in 1189, metnions that he was buried in his coronation robes with a golden crown on ihs head and gloves on his hands.