How many shawls can one priest have?

In Tamil Nadu it is a sign of respect and a tradition to drape someone with a shawl when honoring them at an event or function. Recently I attended a Jubilee ceremony for on priest named Backianatham. This jubilee function commemorated his 25th year of service to the Roman Catholic church. The event was organized by one of the Lead Forward trust members as it was especially relevant that he is a Dalit priest and the location was a Dalit village. In events in Tamil Nadu some number of people are seated on stage in plastic chairs in a row. At least one row will be present sometimes more if necessary. The stage for this even was the church steps and entry way and you can imagine in a big Dalit village they will have a big church to hold all the attendees during mass. This stage was quite gigantic and as they were arranging chairs they seemed to squeeze about 20 or 25 people on the stage as more chair were popping up on the ends when more people arrived to fill them. Backianatham sat in the middle and for hours people gave speeches about Backinathams leadership and monumental career. He has really helped many people and supported many local projects as a leader. So after each speech out from the sidelines popped a sparkly or woollen shawl and the speech giver draped it over Backianatham and then posed for a cheesy photo that will go in some scrapbook and collect dust on a shelf with other 2009 memories. After about 20 shawls refolded in a pile were amassed I began to wonder after 25 years as a priest, not including his time as a brother how many shawls could be possibly have. Probably after 10 years and 15 years there is also a similar ceremony to collect shawls and this even excludes all the individuals who shawl him because he is a priest or helped their family. One thing to mention is the moment after being shawled you can remove the shawl, towel, fabric or some sort and another party folds it neatly along the creases as it was just unfolded from the package to be placed over your shoulders so there is really no time when you are wearing the shawl just people have the photos to construct the memory of that fine moment when you were wearing the shawl. After the jubilee I guestimate that Backianatham has about 3 house fulls of shawls probably exploding out of the windows and creeping through the cracks of the dried palm leaves and straw that make for a fine summertime roof. They layer the floor and could construct a plush bed or bench. You would never run out of makeshift pillows and there would always be shawls to shawl someone else with which brings me to the second rhetorical question... Is it appropriate to re-shawl someone with a shawl that you've been shawled with? As a final comment I know one priest who gives the shawls and towels to all the people in his native place. After spending six days with him I saw his shawl pile triple and he's only been ordained as a priest for one year. What will his jubilee ceremony be like?