| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Although the actual form of words which accompanies the laying on of the bishop's hands, Accipe Spiritum Sanctum ad robur, etc., cannot be traced further back than the twelfth century, the whole spirit of the ritual is ancient, and some of the elements, notably the conferring of the stole and the prayer which follows the delivery of the book of the Gospels, are of much older date.
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