In these last few days we have welcomed the relics of St Claude de la Colombière and St Margaret Mary Alacoque to the streets and the centre of London to mark the end of the Holy Year of Mercy.
Appropriately we received the relics of St Claude, a Jesuit, at Farm Street, where we were taken deep into the days of persecution of Catholics and the dangers that Claude and others faced as they brought the sacraments to the recusant community.
Later we visited the Queen’s Chapel at St James’s Palace, where he had celebrated the sacraments and preached on devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as revealed to him by St Margaret Mary.
