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A Pilgrim Saint

'I would like to travel over the whole earth to preach your Name ... to preach the Gospel on all five continents'.

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Thérèse's wish has been fulfilled. Six years ago the relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux began a 'pilgrimage of grace' that will eventually cover the four corners of the world. She has already travelled thousands of miles from Russia to Brazil, Argentina to Vietnam, U.S.A. to Mexico; Africa and Australia are at present preparing for her coming.

The reliquary containing 'some of the bones of St. Thérèse' will be on pilgrimage in Ireland from Easter Sunday, 15 April till the end of June 2001. She will visit 74 different locations, including every diocesan cathedral in Ireland, all Carmelite convents and houses both O.Carm and OCD and some major shrines.

The visit of the relics of St. Thérèse is a pilgrimage in reverse. Instead of pilgrims travelling to her Shrine in Lisieux she is coming to visit us. The reliquary contains a treasure far greater than the bones of the greatest saint of modern times. It is God's gift of grace to us, a sign of his presence among his people, a reminder of his merciful love and compassion. God speaks to us in sign and symbols. - Jesus is the great sign of God's love and forgiveness. We need signs, something to see, to hear, to touch and feel close to. The saints glorify God in their bodies - poor, weak, and fragile as they were - and God now manifests his power and glory through them. In her body, Thérèse loved, prayed, rejoiced and suffered; and , in her body, she lived out her little way of trust and total surrender. Her remains are a sign through which she still tirelessly proclaims the gospel message of love, confidence and invincible hope.