Them bones, them bones, them dry bones kicked off the first leg of the " Miracle Tour " with a gig at St.John's Cathedral, Portsmouth this week. Turnout was good, a normal Wednesday congregation of usually 20 swelled to more than 600.
The ill prayed to be healed and relatives of the dying pleaded for a miracle.
Many visitors believed that miracles were in the offing. One woman said that she became pregnant, after being told she could not, when she prayed to the bones. Another planned to pray for her mother who had cancer and was not expected to see xmas.
John Milne rubbed two angel figures against the glass surrounding the casket. " I do believe in the power of objects like this " he said.
Helen Goodwin, a regular at the cathedral, collapsed in tears when the relics arrived. " I had to walk away ", she said " I would like to hear there has been a miracle, a healing. That would make my life complete " ( she's 70 ).
Canon Udris said he believed St. Therese had a sense of this global odyssey before she died in 1897, aged 24.
" She said she would like to travel the earth preaching the gospel. She was already dying from tb so she must have had some kind of sense that her life and mision was going to go on. "
What can you say? Pinch me someone. This is the 21st century and superstition still persists. HOW SAD.
The ill prayed to be healed and relatives of the dying pleaded for a miracle.
Many visitors believed that miracles were in the offing. One woman said that she became pregnant, after being told she could not, when she prayed to the bones. Another planned to pray for her mother who had cancer and was not expected to see xmas.
John Milne rubbed two angel figures against the glass surrounding the casket. " I do believe in the power of objects like this " he said.
Helen Goodwin, a regular at the cathedral, collapsed in tears when the relics arrived. " I had to walk away ", she said " I would like to hear there has been a miracle, a healing. That would make my life complete " ( she's 70 ).
Canon Udris said he believed St. Therese had a sense of this global odyssey before she died in 1897, aged 24.
" She said she would like to travel the earth preaching the gospel. She was already dying from tb so she must have had some kind of sense that her life and mision was going to go on. "
What can you say? Pinch me someone. This is the 21st century and superstition still persists. HOW SAD.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
