Cambodia: veneration of the relics of St. Therese of Lisieux
Relics of St. Therese of Lisieux have been in Cambodia for three weeks beginning April 26th. According to the press office of the Foreign Missions in Paris, Eglises d’Asie (EDA), the reliquary of ‘Little Therese’ travelled to Taingkauk, a hamlet situated about 100 km from the Cambodian capital. The first Cambodian bishop, Joseph Chhmar Salas, consecrated in 1975, died in Taingkuak in 1977 of exhaustion at a forced work camp run by the Communist regime of Pol Pot.
The saint’s relics have been divided into three parts, the first of which is housed permanently in Lisieux, Normandy. The second travels to various shrines in France, while the third part, encased in a reliquary donated by the dioceses of Brazil, is sent abroad for the veneration of the faithful in other countries. Her relics today have travelled to over 50 countries. (Sources: kipa-apic.ch—EDA—DICI no. 276, 07/06/13)
