27 March 2015 A.D. Archbishop Welby Leads Service for Re-interment of King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral
27 March 2015 A.D. Archbishop Welby Leads Service for Re-interment of
King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral
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Editors. “Archbishop leads prayers and blessing at Richard III
reinterment.” Justin Welby: Archbishop of
Canterbury. 26 Mar 2015. http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/5524/archbishop-of-canterbury-to-lead-reburial-of-richard-iii. Accessed 26 Mar 2015.
Archbishop
leads prayers and blessing at Richard III reinterment
Thursday 26th March 2015
Archbishop
of Canterbury blesses remains of King Richard III during reburial ceremony at
Leicester Cathedral.
The Archbishop of Canterbury led prayers and the
blessing at the reinterment of King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral today.
Archbishop Justin Welby blessed the remains of
Richard III during a special ceremony attended by Royal Family members, Bishop
of Leicester Tim Stevens, senior ecumenical clergy and civic leaders, among
others.
During the sombre service the Archbishop censed
Richard III’s coffin and blessed it with holy water. He then led the prayers,
before sprinkling the coffin with soil from Fotheringhay, Middleham and
Bosworth after it was lowered into the ground.
Richard III’s mortal remains were received at the
Cathedral on Sunday night during a service of Compline, having been carried
from the University of Leicester by the team who discovered them.
In the medieval rite of reburial, before reinterment
the person’s remains were placed in the church while its usual pattern of
worship continued.
This same pattern was followed in the Cathedral this
week: the remains were in repose until today, when they were reinterred during
a special service based on Morning Prayer.
(Picture: Matt Short/Leicester Cathedral)
Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England,
died aged 32 in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth.
His skeleton was found in 2012, in an old friary
beneath a car park, by a team from the University of Leicester in collaboration
with the Richard III Society and Leicester City Council.
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