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Article: Pilgrims' protest as bishops deny Scots Catholics chance to see saint's relics Decision means devout must go south to venerate St Therese
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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IT IS one of the most important religious events in mainland
Britain - but not for Scots. The relics of St Therese of Lisieux -
one of the Catholic Church's most revered saints - are currently
touring the parishes of England, drawing tens of thousands of
pilgrims to pay their respects and pray for help from the bones of
the woman known as The Little Flower of Jesus.
St Therese's remains, however, will not be making the journey
here, meaning Scottish Catholics have had to clamber aboard buses
and travel hundreds of miles to pay homage to the French Carmelite
nun and patron saint of the sick, who died in 1897, aged just 26.
There is upset among Catholics that it was a decision taken by
the ...