THE relics of St Bernadette will be brought to a church in Tralee next week.

Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church will host the relics over Friday/Saturday, September 13/14. In 1858, the young girl, Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, said she experienced multiple apparitions of the Virgin Mary. After a canonical investigation, Soubirous’s reports were declared worthy of belief.

Bernadette died in 1879 and was later canonized in 1933. Her relics will journey on pilgrimage to Ireland for the very first time, visiting every diocese in the country from September 4th to November 5th this year.

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This will provide an opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds to experience the special gifts and charisms of Lourdes in their diocese.

The relics will be brought to St Brendan’s Church on Friday September 13th at 12 noon. At 3pm there will be the Stations of the Cross. At 6.30pm there will be a Mass and at 8.30pm the Rosary and Veneration concludes.

On Saturday, there will be Mass at 9.30am, a Mass for the sick with Sacrament of Anointing at 12 noon and Rosary at 4pm. Vigil Mass will be celebrated at 6.30pm and a Torchlight procession and Veneration take place at 9pm.

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