07 December 2019
Word of the Day: Royal Coronation
CORONATION, ROYAL. The ceremony by which a monarch is crowned by the
Pope or by someone in ecclesiastical authority. Early coronations in the West
record that the Visigothic kings were crowned by the Bishop of Toledo in Spain.
The rite of anointing was introduced in the East about the twelfth century.
In Protestant regimes, where Church and State are closely united, the coronation
follows the pattern of pre-Reformation times and may, as in England, include
a special oath for the defense of Protestantism.
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