St Thérèse Draws Huge Crowds in London

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Crowds swelled to tens of thousands as the relics of the Little Flower made their way north.
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LIVERPOOL, England (UK Catholic Herald) - Almost 80,000 people have flocked to venerate the relics of St Thérèse so far during their tour.
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Crowds swelled to tens of thousands as the relics of the Little Flower made their way north. Some 3,000 people welcomed the bones in Liverpoool, where they drew over 17,000 people during their 24-hour-stay in one of Britain’s largest Catholic cathedrals.
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Auxiliary Bishop Vincent Malone of Liverpool welcomed the relics at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King and spoke of their importance. He explained that venerating the relics was honouring “a temple of a God-given spirit”. The Holy Spirit, he says "who gives us through St Thérèse such lessons of uncomplicated but demanding holiness that the Church honours her as a supreme teacher of the faith - a Doctor of the Church - brought to that perfection in 24 short years.
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