CHAIR is also applied by the Romanists to certain feasts, held anciently in commemoration of the translation of the fee or seat of the vicarage of Christ by St Peter.
The perforated chair, wherein the new-elected pope is placed, F. Mabilon observes, is still to be seen at Rome: but the origin thereof he does not attribute, as is commonly done, to the adventure of pope Joan; but says there is a mystery in it; and it is intended, forsooth, to explain to the pope those words of scripture, that God draws the poor from out of the dust and mire.