Saint relics on show

OLDHAMERS are being invited to view the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux which will be on show at Salford Cathedral and Manchester University’s Catholic Chaplaincy this weekend.

As part of a month-long tour of England and Wales, the relics will arrive this afternoon in a specially-adapted hearse at St John’s Cathedral, Chapel Street, Salford, in time for a welcoming service and Mass at 5.30pm.

Mass will be celebrated by the Right Reverend Terence Brain, Bishop of Salford.

On Sunday afternoon, the relics will be taken to Manchester University’s Catholic Chaplaincy.

There will be a torchlight procession from St Peter’s precinct, in Oxford Road, to the chaplaincy at 8pm.

St Thérèse of Lisieux was a French Carmelite nun who died in 1897, aged 24.

She is patroness of missionaries, aviators and florists, and is known to help young people particularly in search of happiness.