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The precious relics from the True Cross have been inlaid into the “Cross of Wales,” which will head Charles’ procession into Westminster Abbey, where he will be officially crowned. Pope Francis has given relics of the True Cross — two small wooden shards — to King Charles III as a gift for his coronation in Westminster Abbey, London, on May 6.
The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper, said the relics were “a personal gift from the Pope” and were handed over in the Royal Chapel of St James in London by representatives of the Vatican. It reported that “the King requested that the shards be incorporated into a new processional cross that he commissioned for the Church in Wales to celebrate its centenary before becoming monarch.”
After the coronation ceremony, at King Charles’ wish, the cross “will be shared between the Anglican and Catholic churches in Wales,” The Daily Telegraph reported. The news was first broken by British media, including the BBC, on April 19, and confirmed in a tweet by the British Ambassador to the Holy See, Christopher Trott, before Vatican sources also confirmed the extraordinary ecumenical gesture.
For the anointing, the king will wear a simple white shirt, rather than “robes of status,” the archbishop said, “in the full knowledge that the task is difficult and he needs help.”
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