The distinctive combine was “perfumed with important oils”

Jerusalem:

Olive oil, aromatic rose and orange blossom: the particular “chrism” or holy anointing oil for the coronation of Britain’s King Charles III has been blessed in Jerusalem’s Previous Metropolis.

Friday’s ceremony was carried out on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the place Christians consider Jesus was buried.

“The chrism oil which will probably be used to anoint His Majesty The King on Might 6 2023 has been consecrated in Jerusalem,” Buckingham Palace stated in a press release.

The distinctive combine was “perfumed with important oils”, and likewise included extracts of sesame, jasmine and cinnamon, it added.

Based mostly on the identical substances because the oil used on the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, it’s primarily based on a system “which has been used for a whole lot of years”, the palace stated Friday.

The oil, which will even be used to anoint Queen Consort Camilla, the spouse of King Charles III, was consecrated in a particular by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, and the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, Hosam Naoum.

Now saved in an ornate silver flask, the oil got here from the Mount of Olives, the ridge overlooking the walled Previous Metropolis.

The olives had been harvested from two groves, the Monastery of the Ascension and the Monastery of Mary Magdalene, the place Charles III’s grandmother is buried, Princess Alice of Greece.

The olives had been pressed simply exterior the Palestinian metropolis of Bethlehem, within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the pinnacle of the Anglican church, stated the coronation oil displays Charles III’s “private household reference to the Holy Land”, the palace assertion added.

Welby, who will perform the coronation service, stated the oil signified the “deep historic hyperlink between the coronation, the Bible and the Holy Land”.

“From historical kings by way of to the current day, monarchs have been anointed with oil from this sacred place,” he stated.

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