Nun's thigh, foot bones draw onlookers

From the Houston Belief-

Worshippers gathered at Westminster Cathedral in London to venerate the relics of a 19th-century nun who became a Roman Catholic saint.

The relics of St. Therese of Lisieux arrived at the cathedral Monday evening after a stop at London's Wormwood Scrubs prison.

Her three-day stop here marks the high point of a monthlong tour of the relics of venues including cathedrals, convents and the Anglican York Minster.

Bones from the saint's thigh and foot are displayed behind a glass window in a gold-trimmed hardwood casket that weighs almost 300 pounds.

Therese was a French Carmelite nun and 24 when she died of tuberculosis in 1897, after a life of devotion recorded in an autobiography. She was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1925.

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