Courtney McGrailArchbishop Eamon Martin shows his pallium to his mother, Catherine, after his investiture with the pallium by papal nuncio Archbishop Charles Brown in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh.
Archbishop Eamon later took to social media to say his mother had given him some tips on how to keep it clean.
“Mama gives me washing instructions for the pallium,” he tweeted.
The investiture took place in the presence of representatives of the nine dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Armagh, as well as priests and people from the diocese.
The pallium is a white woollen strip worn around the archbishop’s neck to signify his jurisdiction as a metropolitan and symbolises the bond and union between an archbishop and the Pope.
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