The discovery of King Richard III’s bones underneath a car park in Leicester was one of the hottest news stories of 2012. And it still generates a lot of interest: according to the BBC, since the reburial in 2015 of Richard’s remains beneath a handsome tomb in Leicester Cathedral, about 2,500 visitors a day have come to a church that hitherto rarely attracted throngs of tourists.
Now, like the cathedral in Leicester, the Catholic cathedral in Tokyo may start drawing crowds, in part because of a new shrine to a Catholic martyr whose bones were recently entombed there, and in part because of the forthcoming film Silence, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson.
