Monthly Album – The Visit of the Relics of St Bernadette

Even as the Cathedral was filled to capacity for the Mass of Welcome celebrated by the Cardinal, the queue to venerate the Relics filled the Piazza, a precursor of the great queue that would snake around South London for the Lying in State of Queen Elizabeth II not many days later.

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A familiar face at the Proclamation of the Gospel; Fr Andrew is, of course, well known to Lourdes pilgrims for his sterling work on the Pilgrimage.

On the Saturday afternoon, as Veneration continued at the west end, the Cathedral refilled for the Service of Anointing of the Sick, with Bishop John presiding. The Cardinal has remarked upon the prayerful atmosphere that continued day and night throughout the Visit.