"This is an intriguing and a unique event combining the unusual practice of venerating relics with a down-to-earth experience of an optimistic spirituality for all, " said Father Martin Coyle, the provincial leader of the Salesians in Great Britain, the religious order founded by the saint.
By the '70s he was combining the practical technology and functional rationalism of modernist practice with a more conscious relationship of a building to its culture and community.
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