The relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes is going to end up in Wormwood Scrubs and in the Ukrainian Cathedral in London.
Thousands of people have visited a Yorkshire cathedral to see the relics of of a 19th Century saint who is said to have seen the Virgin Mary. BBC News spoke to people who had made the trip to Leeds Cathedral to see the remains of St Bernadette to find out what drove them to attend.
In 1858, the then teenager reported seeing the Virgin Mary 18 times over the course of a few months at Lourdes, France. "As you can see from the crowds, young and old, all diverse backgrounds, it is a sign of the unity that our faith brings to us and that is one of its great strengths and joys."
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