sacring

"They should have set forth for Paris the very day after the sacring, which was the seventeenth of July.

Javan supposed the sacring of a king was magical, in the same sense that a priest's anointing set him apart for a special kind of service.

The sacring of emperors, kings and bishops signified an acceptance that as Christian rulers they governed subject to eternal or divine laws.

Only she is bidden that she must rescue Orleans, and lead the Dauphin to his sacring at Rheims.

And there the hermit slaked my burning thirst, And at the sacring of the mass I saw The holy elements alone; but he, "Saw ye no more?

This invocation, plus the ritual censing of the sanctuary later in the ceremony, would ensure that the actual sacring of the king took place within a consecrated circle, guarded from potentially hostile forces.

"Prince Conall Blaine Cluim Uthyr Haldane, thou art not yet crowned or anointed; yet the acknowledgement of a Haldane sovereign doth customarily involve a sacring.

Father Faelan was there as well, to read him the day's Psalms while he soaked in his tub and a barber trimmed his hair and the senior knights laid out the robes he would wear for his sacring.

The young bishop-elect glanced neither right nor left as he approached the high altar, but a tiny smile of satisfaction played about his lips - unseemly even in a righteous man on his way to his sacring, Dhugal thought.

So the weeks went by, in all delight, my master working hard, and I helping him in my degree, for new banners would be wanted when the Dauphin went for his sacring to his good town of Reims.

"As I swore at my sacring, so I pledge you anew-the protection of Gwynedd to defend you and all your people from every creature with all my power, giving loyalty for loyalty and justice for honor.

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Nor did she pray in vain, for, no more than two days after the first tidings had arrived that the sacring was done, and that all had gone well, my master rode to his own door, weary, but glad at heart, and hobbled into his house.

But the blazon of the sword supporting the crown, between two lilies, that was later given to her and her house, she did not use, as her enemies said she did, out of pride and vainglory, mixing her arms with holy things, even at Rheims at the sacring.

And behind the crown came Alroy himself, his bier borne on the shoulders of six of his knights, his pale, wasted body laid out with hands folded on the breast of a plain white robe like an alb-perhaps the very one he had worn for the anointing at his sacring.

Recollection stirred of its sacring by water and incense at Istelyn's consecration - words of blessing pronounced above it as it lay on a silver salver: holy ritual binding it to the service of a servant of the servants, binding the servant himself to the service of a higher Lord.

And, above all, the Maid has declared to me that she will bring you back to us unscathed of sword, but, for herself, she shall be wounded by an arrow under Orleans, yet shall she not die, but be healed of that wound, and shall lead the King to his sacring at Rheims.