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The July 7 event at Canterbury is evidence of a growing interest in shrines, saints and relics in the Church of England, ...

Francis, the 266th pontiff in the church's nearly 2000-year history, was interred over the weekend in the Basilica of St. Mary Major after a funeral service that drew dozens of global leaders and ...