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Thousands venerate St. Bernadette’s relics in London

More than 50,000 people have venerated the saint’s relics at the start of their two-month tour of Britain.

Luke Coppen
Sep 05, 2022
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Thousands venerate St. Bernadette’s relics in London

Thousands of people have venerated the relics of St. Bernadette of Lourdes in London at the start of their two-month tour of Britain.

Long queues formed outside Westminster Cathedral, the mother church of Catholics in England and Wales, on Sept. 3 as the visionary’s relics arrived from the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France.

A spokesman for the St…

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