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20/03/2008
Royal Break With Maundy Tradition
The first ever Maundy Thursday service to take place outside England and Wales will be held today in Co Armagh.
The Queen will break with centuries of tradition later when she attends the event in St Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral in Armagh, Ireland's ecclesiastical capital.
The leaders of the four main churches on the island are to attend the traditional alms-giving ceremony.
It marks the final day of a three-day visit by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Northern Ireland.
Representatives of the Jewish, Muslim and Hindu faiths will also attend the service, at which the Catholic Primate Cardinal Sean Brady and the Duke of Edinburgh are expected to give readings.
Maundy Thursday has been celebrated since the earliest days of the Christian Church.
(BMcC)
The Queen will break with centuries of tradition later when she attends the event in St Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral in Armagh, Ireland's ecclesiastical capital.
The leaders of the four main churches on the island are to attend the traditional alms-giving ceremony.
It marks the final day of a three-day visit by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Northern Ireland.
Representatives of the Jewish, Muslim and Hindu faiths will also attend the service, at which the Catholic Primate Cardinal Sean Brady and the Duke of Edinburgh are expected to give readings.
Maundy Thursday has been celebrated since the earliest days of the Christian Church.
(BMcC)
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