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.
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 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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