Article: RELICS OF ST. THERESE ARRIVE

Roman Catholics will have a chance to pray before the relics of St. Therese of Lisieux today at St. Patrick's Residence in Naperville. The relics, which began an international tour in 1996, attracted large crowds in New York and Washington, D.C., before their arrival in the Chicago area.

The relics are housed in a 300-pound, five-foot wood and gilded silver reliquary that's in a clear Plexiglas dome.

The reliquary, which contains several of Therese's bones, will be placed in front of the altar in the chapel of St. Patrick's. The reliquary is usually kept in the chapel of the Carmelite monastery in Lisieux, France, where Therese lived as a cloistered nun.

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