COOPERATORES VERITATIS
PRESENTATION OF
LAMBS FOR FEAST OF ST. AGNES
St Agnes: Patron Saint of Children of Mary
Vatican City, 21
January 2013 (VIS) - This morning in the Urban VIII Chapel of the Vatican's Apostolic
Palace, the Pope was presented with two lambs that had been blessed earlier in
the morning for today's feast of St. Agnes. The blessing took place in the
basilica on Rome's Via Nomentana which bears the saint's name and where she is
buried. The lamb's wool will be used to make the palliums that will be bestowed
on the new metropolitan archbishops on 29 June, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and
Paul, Apostles.
Pope Benedict XVI whilst blessing a lamb
The pallium, a white woollen band
embroidered with six black silk crosses, is a sign of honour and liturgical
jurisdiction that is worn by the Pope and by metropolitan archbishops in their
churches and those of their provinces.
The Bishop's Pallium made from newly shorn wool of lambs
The Trappist Fathers of the Abbey of the
Three Fountains in Rome raise the lambs, the symbolic animal of St. Agnes who
was martyred in Rome around the year 305. The sisters of St. Cecilia will make
the palliums from the newly-shorn wool of the lambs.
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