Today, being the Feast of St Louis and thus San Luigi Day, the Vilatte Chapel at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, was consecrated for worship and the Prince-Abbot enthroned there.

The Vilatte Chapel is a private chapel in the grounds of the Prince-Abbot’s home, and will serve as the worldwide headquarters for the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi, the Byelorussian Patriarchate, the Apostolic Episcopal Church and other church bodies under his headship.

In the photograph below, the Prince-Abbot is seated on his elaborately-carved cathedra and wears the gold bullion stole and pectoral cross of Prince-Abbot Joseph III de San Luigi together with the cope of the late Archbishop Forest E. Barber.

The altar frontal has been specially embroidered by commission of the Prince-Abbot, and bears the emblems of San Luigi, the Order of the Crown of Thorns and the Order of Antioch.