Still in kneeling the Pope began to recite the Deus electorum fortitudo. Holding his hand out to mine. I place my hand in his, he led me up the stairs to the anointing chair. Once seated Gabriel, Adrian, Dean and Nefertari surround me. The Pope gave Gabriel a golden cloth. Each of the four guardians takes a corner, making a canopy over me. Coming back from the altar the Pope picked up the ampulla and poured the concentration oil into filigreed spoon. He begins to anoint me in the form of a cross on the hands, head, and heart. After being anointed, I rose from the Coronation Chair and kneeled down at a faldstool placed in front of it. The Pope then concludes the ceremonies of the anointing by reciting a prayer of the ancient Latin prayer Deus, Dei Filius, Once the prayer finished, I rose and sat again in the Coronation Chair. My four guardians then bear away the canopy.From there the Pope enrobes me placing the gold orb in my left hand and the scepter in my right. He then places a go
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