(Photograph of St Chad's relic courtesy of the Archdiocese of Birmingham)
The Catholic Church has presented Anglican Lichfield Cathedral with a relic of St Chad, an Anglo-Saxon monk whose shrine was desecrated in the Protestant Reformation.
The relic, which was preserved secretly by Catholic recusants, was transferred from St Chad’s Catholic Cathedral in Birmingham to a new shrine constructed at the location of the original Medieval setting.
The intention of the transfer is to demonstrate Christian unity among Anglicans and Catholics in the Midlands in particular.
