The Anointing Ceremony.
' Theodosius,' says an authority before us, ' was the first Christian emperor to receive the blessing of the Church.' This was in the fourth century. The Gothic king- Wamba was anointed with holy oil at Toledo, in Spain, in the year 672. Fleury, writing of this incident, says: 'This is the first example that I find of the unction of kings.' The Catholic Church adopted from the Jewish the ancient ceremony of
anointing sovereigns to their office, and this custom has been retained to the present day, and, as has been already shown in our columns, has even been practised at the coronation service of English sovereigns to the present time.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 7 August 1902, Page 1
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113The Anointing Ceremony. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 7 August 1902, Page 1
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