COMMENT: St. Agnes. Tre Fontane Abbey

L'Abbazia delle Tre Fontane

This morning, the introduction of the Mass of Saint Agnes, Fr. Raymond had an interesting memory from Tre Fontane Abbey.
He was working as one of the Secretaries after the General Chapter 1989.
On the 21st January he was invited to present the traditional of the lambs of St Agnes to the Pope for the Paliums for Archbishops.
He was delighted for the occasion only to his dismay to realize that he was to depart  from 

Ciampino Airport on the same day.

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Tre Fontane Abbey (English: Three Fountains Abbey; Latin: Abbatia trium fontium ad Aquas Salvias), or the Abbey of Saints Vincent and Anastasius, is a Roman Catholic abbey in Rome, currently held by the Trappist Fathers of the Cistercian Order. It is known for raising the lambs whose wool is used to weave the pallia of new metropolitan archbishops. The Pope blesses the lambs on the Feast of Saint Agnes on January 21. The wool is prepared, and he gives the pallia to the new archbishops on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the Holy Apostles.

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1. AnonymousOctober 6, 2009 at 8:54 AM

   The lambs are from the Sisters in Trastevere?
   
   Thomas Merton wrote of Tre Fontane and the Trappist monks there in the Seven Storey Mountain.

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   AnonymousOctober 6, 2009 at 10:57 AM

   I think the lambs came from this Trappist/Cistercian Abbey of Tre Fontane, and the two lambs were presented to the Pope on St. Agnes' Feastday.
   Then the lams were shorn of their wool by the Benedictine Nuns of St. Cecilia...in Trastevere, and the wool was woven by them into the pallium and given to the Pope to present to new Bishops.
   
   The cloistered Benedictine nuns still weave the pallium, but I think either the Canons of St. Peter's, or another monastic group have the responsibility for the lambs now.

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   AnonymousOctober 10, 2009 at 5:34 AM

   I do know that the Monks at Tre Fontaine were presenting as late as two years ago as I have a picture of Father Graham Touche,o.s.c.o. of Our Lady of Calvary Abbey in Rogersville, NB, Canada participating in the ceremony of presentation to the Holy Father. Father Graham was completing his studies in Rome at the time and was a resident at Tre Fontaine

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4. 
   AndrewJanuary 21, 2010 at 9:27 AM

   VATICAN CITY, 21 JAN 2010 (VIS) - This morning, in keeping with the
   tradition for today's feast of St. Agnes, the Pope blessed a number of lambs
   in the Urban VIII Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Palace.
   
   The wool of the lambs is used to make the palliums bestowed on new
   metropolitan archbishops on June 29, Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul,
   Apostles.
   
   The lambs are raised by the Trappist Fathers of the Abbey of the Three
   Fountains in Rome and the palliums are made from the newly-shorn wool by the
   sisters of St. Cecilia.