Relics of popes to be installed in Tralee priory

Relics of the two popes to be canonised tomorrow are to be installed during the St Peter’s ceremony in Tralee’s Dominican priory.

Holy Cross Dominican Church in Tralee will be the only church in Ireland and one of only a handful throughout Christendom with relics of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II and those of the Polish saint Sr Faustina.

They will be formally installed at a special Divine Mercy Mass tomorrow timed to coincide with the ceremony at St Peter’s Square that will see the popes named as saints.