Relic of St. Thérèse venerated at papal general audience
December 19, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis venerated a first class relic of St. Thérèse of Lisieux during his December 18 general audience, according to the Vatican newspaper. A papal aide placed a bouquet of white roses before the relic.
The relic, a bone of the saint’s foot, will be venerated at the French national church in Rome throughout 2025. The rector of the shrine in Lisieux accompanied the relic as he led a pilgrimage to Rome in which he stopped at the places the saint visited on her own journey to Rome in 1887.
Annual traditions associated with the pre-Christmas general audience continued in 2024, L’Osservatore Romano reported. The mayor of Bolsena, Italy, presented the Pope with a gift of eels from the local lake, as has been customary since 1976; and musicians from Molise performed, as has been customary since 1993.
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