The serious business of Church renewal will gather pace in Scotland later this year when the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux visit the country for the first time.
Catholic officials are hoping that the three-week tour, from August 30 to September 20, will be as productive as that south of the border a decade ago.
On that occasion, more than a quarter of a million pilgrims venerated the remains of the French saint, many of them queuing patiently to do so, leaving the administrator of Westminster Cathedral “awestruck” by the numbers of people, including many lapsed Catholics, who turned up.
