What a great story! From the Times Online:
Not since the Reformation, and perhaps not even before then, has England seen a pilgrimage quite like this.
The closest comparison might be to the Middle Ages, when “pardoners”, or salesmen, would travel the countryside hawking the “relics” of dead saints to credulous Christians who believed that they could buy themselves less time in Purgatory.
But that would not do justice to the phenomenon of St Thérèse, who within hours of touching down on British soil attracted a queue of hundreds of devout Christians who snaked around the Roman Catholic cathedral in Portsmouth merely to light a candle and touch the Perspex encasing the jacaranda casket in which rest the relics of this 19th-century child-like nun.
At least 3,000 more turned out for three services, including two Masses in the cathedral for young people, the sick and the local community.
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