The relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux journey to Brazil

Les reliques de sainte Thérèse sont attendues à la Paróquia Santa Teresinha (Higienopolis) of São Paulo Thursday 8 September 2022 and will keep on being in Brazil until eventually December 15. “It will be four months of fervor, of terrific devotion”, introduced Father Olivier Ruffray, rector of the Shrine of Lisieux, throughout a press conference on Friday 2 September at the Jean-Paul II pastoral center, in entrance of the Basilica of Santa Teresa.

“There is usually a fad for receiving these who preferred to journey to Earth. […] His concept is rooted in the Christian religion and opens to the common. “

Father Olivier Ruffray will accompany the relics to São Paulo, with Maria Rodrigues, from the reception company of the Shrine, as properly as reps of the Vacationer Workplace of Lisieux Normandy, of the Shrine of Alençon and of the Shrine of Lisieux. “We leave on Tuesday 6 September”, explained the priest, who receives “as a distinctive grace” a journey on the similar stage as the relics.

The delegation will arrive on Wednesday 7 September, Independence Working day, Brazil’s nationwide holiday getaway. “We are also arriving in the electoral period of time”, also remarks Father Olivier Ruffray. [Élection présidentielle brésilienne le 2 octobre, et le 30 octobre en cas de second tour, NdlR] ‘It’s their organization, not ours, but potentially Therese’s also. “

A ceremony at the Consulate Basic of France, in Sao Paulo, is scheduled for Friday 9 September, in the evening. A week afterwards, on Friday 16 September, a celebration will choose place in the cathedral of Marilia with priests from the diocese, lay people today and religious communities, like 3 Teresian communities. 1 of these three Teresian communities will be drawn by large amount to host the feast of Santa Teresa on 1^is October.

The Sanctuary also signifies a celebration of the settlement of the diocese at the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Benoit on 12 Oct and the working day of youth, in Marilia, on 23 October.

Tourism problem

A tourist issue is added to the journey of the relics of Santa Teresa in Brazil. Sandrine Papini, accountable for marketing the Lisieux Normandy vacationer business office and president of the Villes Sanctuaires association in France, will be current to meet up with Brazilian tourism gurus.

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“We are fortuitous that Thérèse can just take this territory up higher,” said François Aubey, president of the urban group of Lisieux-Normandy on Friday. “Clotilde Valter [vice-présidente de la communauté d’agglomération, NdlR] he will represent us on 9 September at the Consulate occasion. ”

The mayor of Lisieux, Sébastien Leclerc, who sees Thérèse of Lisieux as “an worldwide ambassador”, declared at the press convention: “The City is fully commited to the aspect of the Shrine with terrific satisfaction”.

The relics have been traveling given that 1994

Emmanuel Houis, general secretary of the Shrine of Lisieux, remembers that the relics of Saint Teresa have been touring in France and all around the planet because 1994. Practically 80 countries have by now gained them. This month commences their fourth journey to Brazil. The initially in Brazil started in late 1997 and continued in 1998.

There are two reliquaries for the relics of Saint Teresa: a Gothic reliquary, which travels only to France and some neighboring nations around the world by land, and a hundreds of years-previous wood reliquary. It is this next reliquary, available by Brazil, which will travel from 8 September to 15 December. In accordance to the Shrine, “Along with the United States and Italy, Brazil is just one of the 3 overseas countries whose citizens go to the Lisieux Shrine the most”.

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