Anointing

Anointing is a blessing through the ritual adding of oil, chrism or fat to the head or body of a person or thing. Most religions do a version of this.^[1]^[2]

Anointing Media

Jain Abhisheka at Śravaṇa Beḷgoḷa
Samuel anoints David, Dura Europos, Syria, 3rd century.
The Anointing of Jesus, by William Hole, 1906
The frontispiece of the Vatican Library's Gelasian Sacramentary manuscript
A chrismarium used in Russia before the revolution of 1917
The anointing of Louis XV as king of France
Friedrich I being anointed king of Prussia by two Protestant bishops, following his coronation at Königsberg in 1701
Ointment in silver box from the coronation of Swedish king Gustav III, 1772, containing lavender and roses
The anointing of Tsar Nicholas II at Uspensky Cathedral in Moscow in 1896

↑ Baynes, T.S., ed. (1878), "Anointing" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 90 {{cite encyclopedia}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |coauthors= (help)
↑ Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis (1911). "Anointing" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 79–80. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)