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Blessing of Lambs for Feast of St Agnes


This morning in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, in keeping with the tradition for today's feast of St Agnes, the Pope blessed two lambs, the wool of which will be used to make the palliums bestowed on new metropolitan archbishops on June 29, Solemnity of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles. The pallium is a white woolen band embroidered with six black crosses which is worn over the shoulders and has two hanging pieces, front and back. Worn by the Pope and by metropolitan archbishops, the pallium symbolises authority and expresses the special bond between the bishops and the Roman Pontiff. Source: VIS

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