Editing Liturgical colours (section)

==== Regional and situational exceptions ====
Some particular variations:
[[File:Solemnidad de la Inmaculada Concepción, Valencia, 2014.png|thumb|The [[Feast of the Immaculate Conception]] in [[Valencia Cathedral]], 2014]]
*{{Color sample|#6495ed}} '''[[Marian blue|Blue]]''', a colour associated with the [[Blessed Virgin Mary|Virgin Mary]]. While blue vestments are common in some Eastern churches, in the Latin rite, blue as a vestment colour may only be used pursuant to a special privilege granted.<ref name="Zenit">{{Cite web |last=McNamara |first=Edward |date=2010-05-10 |title=Blue Liturgical Vestments |url=https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/blue-liturgical-vestments-4526 |website=Zenit}}</ref> The permission, sometimes called "cerulean privilege", is of two kinds: one pertains to particular Marian shrines and specifies when blue vestments may be worn. The other type of permission is that accorded to various countries. In Spain, an apostolic indult was granted for the feast of the [[Immaculate Conception]] and its [[Octave (liturgy)|octave]] as well as for votive Masses and Saturdays, when the [[Liturgical hours|Office]] for the Immaculate Conception is prayed<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MR9HAQAAMAAJ&dq=Cerulean+Indult&pg=PA584 |title=Sacred Vestments |journal=The American Ecclesiastical Review |publisher=Catholic University of America Press |year=1904 |editor-last=Heuser |editor-first=Herman Joseph |volume=31 |page=584}}</ref> and on Marian feasts where there is a related custom. The privilege has been granted to Spain, to certain of its colonies, and former colonies in Latin America by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites on 12 February 1864.<ref name=Zenit/> It also extends to the Philippines, Guam, and the Mariana Islands, which were still under Spanish rule at that time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gihr |first=Nikolaus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RkpIAAAAYAAJ&dq=Cerulean+vestments&pg=PA298 |title=The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: Dogmatically, Liturgically, and Ascetically Explained |publisher=B. Herder |year=1902 |page=298 |quote=n.1}}</ref> The use of blue is also observed in Portugal during certain Marian feasts,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cor |url=https://www.liturgia.pt/dicionario/dici_ver.php?cod_dici=107 |website=Secretariado Nacional para a Liturgia}}</ref> although no special indult has been granted. There have also been uses of blue in place of violet for the season of Advent despite the fact that this practice is not authorized under liturgical rubrics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gary D. Penkala |url=http://www.canticanova.com/articles/xmas/art1c1.htm |title=Advent Blues |date=December 2000 |work=Cantica Nova Publications |quote=editorial}}</ref><ref name="Zenit" />
*{{Color sample|gold}} '''[[Gold (color)|Gold]]''' or {{Color sample|silver}} '''[[Silver (color)|silver]]''' may be worn on more solemn occasions in the dioceses of the United States.{{sfn|Moroney|2002| page = 346}}