Whose Holy Relics 'toured' the UK in 2009?
"5 October 2009, the monastery hosted the relics of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux for three hours as part of a nationwide tour of the U.K. At the time, Sister Mary of the Resurrection, aged 83 and prioress of the monastery, stated, ""We were surprised but very privileged to be chosen, we thought the relics would go to the cathedral in Sheffield. It's a big event for us and a joy.” Monastery of The Holy Spirit, Sheffield The Monastery of The Holy Spirit, known locally as Kirk Edge Convent is a Carmelite monastery for nuns. It is situated on Kirk Edge"
"Although Cardinal Basil Hume had declined to endorse proposals for a tour in 1997, her relics finally visited England and Wales in late September and early October 2009, including an overnight stop at the Anglican York Minster on her feast day, 1 October. A quarter of a million people venerated them. On 27 June 2010, the relics of Saint Thérèse made their first visit to South Africa in conjunction with the 2010 World Cup. They remained in the country until October 5, 2010. The writing-desk Therese used at Carmel (an artifact as opposed to a relic) toured the United States"
"offerings by the devotees are the testimonials of this Divine Intervention. On 30 September 2011, the relic of Don Bosco which was on a world tour (arranged by Salasian Fathers from Italy) was received at Don Bosco Church, North Paravur and was venerated by thousands. A relic of Saint Faustina, a Polish nun who was canonized in 2000 was brought to Don Bosco Church on 11 January 2013 by Ms. Joy Hunt and her associate Mr.Ian Gaudery. They are from Australia on a tour to spread devotion to the Divine Mercy ignited by Saint Faustina. The relic was received by"
"series of articles about their experiences for the ""Daily Telegraph"" newspaper. On 1 September 2009, they played a free concert at Tate Modern, London, supported by Reverend and The Makers, to celebrate the launch of the new climate change campaign . Their second single, ""Unfaithful"", was released on 28 September 2009 on CD, 7"" vinyl and download, and the launch concert was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London on 21 September. Their first UK tour took place from 16 to 30 October 2009, culminating in a concert at Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre, accompanied by the Oxford Millennium Orchestra."
"their first UK tour in April/May 2009 with singer and soap star Amy Nuttall joining them as a special guest. The performance at the Cardiff International Arena featured a one-off performance with Bonnie Tyler. In October 2009, the choir held auditions at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff to find two new members to join them. Later that month the choir's second album, ""Band of Brothers"", went straight to number one in the UK Classical Charts, where it remained for three weeks. The album went on to win the NS&I Album of the Year 2010 at the Classical Brit awards. The"
"the second half, and during two shows on the entire leg, famous French death metal act Gojira was the headliner. After the leg with Hatesphere was complete on May 3, 2009, the band continued its touring activities directly into the UK, for the second time in its career, were SIC spent the entire month performing gig after gig in over 15 cities all over the country. Support on select dates came from Ten Tonne Dozer (Shetland Islands, UK), Def-Con One (UK) and Attica Rage (UK) among others. After the entire tour was over, the band returned to the Faroe Islands"
"fellow heavy metal stalwarts Heaven and Hell, Motörhead, and Testament. In September, the act visited Australia, South Korea, and Japan. The following month, the band toured Mexico and South America through mid-November. In February 2009, the act kicked off a second leg of European shows as part of a touring package dubbed the ""Priest Feast"", which also featured Megadeth and Testament. The tour started in Dublin and culminated in Amsterdam in late March. In late June, the band commenced a jaunt of special shows in North America to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the group's renowned album, ""British Steel"". The"
"Holy Holy (band) Holy Holy is a supergroup which performs the musical works of David Bowie. The group features drummer Woody Woodmansey, formerly of Bowie's backing band The Spiders from Mars and Tony Visconti, Bowie's long time producer and occasional bass player, as well as a number of other notable musicians. The group undertook a short tour in the UK in September 2014 and a larger scale tour of the UK and Japan in the summer of 2015. In January 2016 they toured the east coast of the United States and followed this with a full tour of US and"
"Redeemer of Souls Tour The Redeemer of Souls Tour was a worldwide concert tour by British heavy metal band, Judas Priest, which was in support of ""Redeemer of Souls"". It was their first tour since the conclusion of the Epitaph World Tour in 2012, which was originally dubbed as a farewell tour; the band has since retracted that statement. The 2016 live album, ""Battle Cry,"" was released on 25 March of that year, featuring the band's performance recorded at Wacken Open Air on 1 August 2015. _ The tour featured material from ""Redeemer of Souls"" for the first time. It"
"of their twenty date national tour throughout Australia, and played conferences, festivals and headline shows throughout Europe and the UK, including The Great Escape, London Calling in Amsterdam, Liverpool Sound City, Liverpool Music Week and Primavera Sound in Barcelona. ""Artrocker"" magazine in the UK hailed Holy Holy in their Top 6 bands at The Great Escape in 2015, saying ""will probably soon take over all of the universe with their wholesome psychedelic take on alt-rock, alt-country, dusty roads and beards"". Straight off the back of a relentless touring schedule and festival appearances for their previous album When The Storms Would"
"organisations. A national project undertaken by Area 3 in 2017 involved the sourcing and subsequent tour of Ireland with a relic of Saint Teresa of Calcutta on the 20th anniversary of her death. This scheme involved Knights from all parts of the country, including the Associate Knights of St Columbanus who were responsible for promoting the tour on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram to make the tour more accessible to younger Catholics. The duties of the Knights involved ensuring that the relic was safely transported around the country and that it was always guarded when available for veneration. Another project of"
"Portugal (at Lisbon on the Atlantic Pavilion), which they had not visited since 2005. The tour then continued to Milan, Italy, and then Paris, France; Halford had last performed with Judas Priest in Paris in 1991. From June through August 2009, Judas Priest completed a North American tour to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the release of ""British Steel"" (1980); the album was performed in its entirety on each tour date, with some other songs thrown in. This tour was to be a joint effort with fellow Englishman David Coverdale and Whitesnake. Unfortunately, Whitesnake would have to leave the tour"
"in nine countries, including Spain, and sold over three million copies in just two months, 500,000 of them in UK establishing be a concert tour and reference for the group. They closed 2009 with his first Christmas special intimate show entitled ""Celebrate Christmas with Il Divo"", which included a traditional repertoire of favourite songs of the holiday season with an orchestra and special guests in the United Kingdom, USA and Canada. They started with two concerts at the Hammersmith Apollo in London on 7 and 8 December with guest artists; violinist Vanessa-Mae and Camilla Kerslake, ending in the United States"
"not as the actual chalice used at the Last Supper. Although both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have venerated this chalice at the Cathedral of Valencia, neither has formally pronounced it as authentic. A large number of other claimed relics of Jesus continue to be displayed throughout the world. A good number of these relics involve the journey of Saint Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great, to Syria Palaestina in the fourth century to gather relics. The authenticity of many of these relics is in question. For instance, regarding the Holy Nails brought back by Saint"
"2009 with Friars legends Stiff Little Fingers, Penetration and The Disco Students selling out well in advance for SLF’s return after 27 years. The final anniversary concert, billed as the probably last Christmas party took place on 27 November and featured memorable performances from Kid Creole and the Coconuts and China Crisis. The day the Pretty Things tickets went on sale for the first Friars gig in 25 years, a large crowd gathered at the Civic Centre box office along with journalists and BBC News. BBC News also came back on the day of the Kid Creole gig to report"
"European tour with headliners Judas Priest and Megadeth in February and March 2009. On March 25, 2009, Testament played a special one-off show at the O2 Islington Academy in London, where they performed their first two albums (""The Legacy"" and ""The New Order"") back-to-back, with British thrash band Sylosis in support. Also in 2009, Testament set out on a 6-week tour across the US to promote ""The Formation of Damnation"", touring with Unearth and Lazarus A.D.. In early 2010, Testament toured the United States with Megadeth and Exodus; Alex Skolnick did not participate in the tour due to previous obligations"
"Sacred travel Sacred travel, spiritualized travel, or metaphysical tourism is a growing niche of the travel market. It attracts New Age believers and involves tours and travel to ""spiritual hotspots"" on the Earth. Destinations are often ancient sites where there is an alleged mystery concerning their origin or purpose, such as Machu Picchu in Peru, The Pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge in England, the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, or the various Black Madonnas. These travelers see the journey as more than just tourism and take the trips in order to heal themselves and the world. Part of this may involve rituals"
"fans. The Dirty Youth then self-booked a 33 date 'toilet circuit' tour of the UK, including an appearance on the Scuzz Stage at Bloodstock Open Air Festival. They then went on to headline their first sold out London show at The Water Rats. The Dirty Youth continued to tour to promote their E.P, which by then had gone on to sell over 2500 hard copies. This was all self-promoted through the band's social networks, big cartel and through touring the U.K. They had also sold an impressive additional 3000 units on ITunes in that year alone. Other highlights of 2009"
"and had ""travelled the country taking objects ranging from crucifixes to Anglo-Saxon carvings – and even a stone coffin."" He is known to have stolen artefacts from churches in Warwickshire, Herefordshire, south and north Wales, Kent and Suffolk. Operation Icarus has featured on several TV programmes to raise public awareness of the ongoing investigation and art theft from churches. Operation Icarus Operation Icarus is a police investigation into the organised theft and black market trade of religious and church artefacts in England and Wales. The investigation, led by West Mercia Police, commenced in 2013 and has subsequently been declared a"
"""God Fodder"" from start to finish in London, on 19 December 2009 at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire. After playing the album, the band played other tracks from their catalogue. One of the band's classic T-shirt designs was sold at the show's merchandise stand for the first time since the ""God Fodder"" era. The concert was critically acclaimed. The band played the entirety of the album again at the HMV Institute in Birmingham on 25 September 2010 as part of the institute's reopening. Interviewed prior to the Birmingham concert, Penney stated that ""back when we first toured ""God Fodder"", we"
"UK touring production, which transferred to New Zealand later in 2009. The show also runs full-time in a custom-built theatre in Bochum, Germany, where it has been running since 1988. Lloyd Webber wrote a Requiem Mass dedicated to his father, William, who had died in 1982. It premiered at St. Thomas Church in New York on 24 February 1985. Church music had been a part of the composer's upbringing and the composition was inspired by an article he had read about the plight of Cambodian orphans. Lloyd Webber had on a number of occasions written sacred music for the annual"
"Epitaph World Tour The Epitaph World Tour was a concert tour by English heavy metal band, Judas Priest, at the time intended to be the band's farewell tour. The tour commenced in June 2011 and concluded in May 2012. The tour was named after the 6th track from their ""Sad Wings of Destiny"" album. Guitarist K. K. Downing abruptly left the band shortly before the start of the tour. He was replaced by then 31-year-old Briton, Richie Faulkner. The last date of the tour was held in an unusually small venue, London's Hammersmith Apollo. This return to Judas Priest's homeland"
"which contained two feature-length films on DVD written and directed by him, and two accompanying CDs of the soundtracks, and one regular CD of studio album songs. In October and November, he underwent two surgical procedures. On 3 February 2012 the Santo Spirito Tour started at Congress Center Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany, with additional visits to Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium and France. The United Kingdom part of the tour commenced in the middle of March and finished on 5 April at Hammersmith Apollo in London. In November 2014, Rea embarked on a European tour called The Last"
"remains in 2012, it was decided that they should be reburied at Leicester Cathedral, despite feelings in some quarters that he should have been reburied in York Minster. His remains were carried in procession to the cathedral on 22 March 2015, and reburied on 26 March 2015 at a religious re-burial service at which both the Right Reverend Tim Stevens, the Bishop of Leicester, and the Most Reverend Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated. The British Royal Family was represented by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Countess of Wessex. The actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who is a"
"Saint Walpurga. A special guest in 2018 was the statue of Our Lady, Cause of Our Joy, from the Basilica of Our Lady in Tongeren. Pilgrimage of the Relics, Maastricht The Pilgrimage of the Relics or Maastricht Septennial Pilgrimage () is a seven-yearly Catholic event in the Dutch city of Maastricht. Originating in the Middle Ages, it developed from a pilgrimage to the grave of Saint Servatius into the present-day religious, historical, cultural and commercial enterprise. Highlights in the programme are the displaying or unveiling of the relics in the main churches and secondly, the processions with the town's main"
"Magnetic Tour is a worldwide concert tour by American heavy metal band Metallica. The tour began on October 17, 2008 and is in support of the band's ninth studio album, ""Death Magnetic"". The Sword have supported the band on the first three legs of the tour (in North America), from October 21, 2008 to February 1, 2009, and are due to return for the next three legs, which will be performed in Europe between February 25 and May 17, 2009. Gods of the Earth Tour The ""Gods of the Earth"" Tour was a worldwide concert tour by American heavy metal"
"of the Faith"" tour. In 2009, Judas Priest kicked off their 30th anniversary tour in the US by playing ""British Steel"" live in its entirety for the first time. The only other Judas Priest albums of which all the songs have been performed live are ""Defenders of the Faith"" and ""Rocka Rolla"", but neither of them were played in the original LP running order or during the same tour (though the original US debut LP had a different running order than the UK version). The 30th anniversary release of the album came with a DVD and CD of a live"
"highest grossing tour of the year for a British artist. The last part of the tour took place in February and March 2009, with the band, once again, using ""Ed Force One"". The final leg included the band's first ever appearances in Peru and Ecuador, as well as their return to Venezuela and New Zealand after 17 years. The band also played another show in India (their third in the country within a span of 2 years) at the Rock in India festival to a crowd of 20,000. At their concert in São Paulo on 15 March, Dickinson announced on"
"refused to let the group perform after they had learned the band formerly went by the name ""Burn the Priest"". This was the second occasion Lamb of God ran into a dispute with the venue; the group were previously banned from performing in 2005 while supporting Slipknot on their Subliminal Verses Tour. The group announced shows in outlying cities in lieu of the ban. In February 2009, the band toured Europe; a number of the U.K. dates were part of a package tour sponsored by Metal Hammer dubbed ""Defenders of the Faith"" featuring Dimmu Borgir as co-headliners. The group then"
"added ""Hilly Fields"" to their July 2010 playlist of favourite tunes. On 11 October 2008 nicely played his first ever live show, supporting friends and long-time supporters the Bevis Frond at The Luminaire in London. Since then nicely has performed a handful of concerts (often under the band name nick nicely's Unlived Lives), including the Green Man Festival in 2009, and, inspired by the surrealists, always wearing a veil. In 2012 nicely was invited to play two shows by Kasper and Herlinde Raeman, at Meneer Malasch (Amsterdam) and Wastelands Festival (Ghent). This marked the start of nicely's solo performances. Sharing"
"months later featuring the soundtrack, and a DVD of the show was finally released in 2003. The same ensemble performed the show again this time to a paying public at The Royal Festival Hall in London on 19 October 2001. Plans to perform the show in Paris and America never came to fruition and neither did a short 40th anniversary tour slated for venues in the UK in January 2009. However, the 2009 incarnation of The Pretty Things featuring May, Taylor, Frank Holland, George Perez, Jack Greenwood and Mark St. John did perform the album onstage on 10 April 2009"
"an extensive support slot for Joe Bonamassa on his UK and Irish tour dates. Thom appeared at the Stirling Castle Hogmanay celebrations 2009. She performed alongside The MacDonald Brothers, The Shermans and Gary Mullen. Thom toured the UK in April and May 2010 to showcase new material from her album ""Merchants and Thieves"" and made a number of appearances at Festivals in the UK including The Tiree festival in Scotland and The Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival in Colne Lancashire in England. A second ""Merchants and Thieves"" tour took place in September and early October. Thom announced a tour"
"Hong Kong. From December 2017 to February 2018, Saint Francis Xavier's first class relic of his arm toured in various locations in Canada. The faithful, especially students participating with Catholic Christian Outreach at Rise Up 2017 in Ottawa, venerated the relics. The tour continued to every city where CCO and/or the Jesuits are present in Canada: Quebec City, St. John's, Halifax, St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish (neither CCO nor the Jesuits are present here), Kingston, Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, and Montreal before returning to Ottawa. The relic was then returned to Rome with a Mass of"