Chai Brady
Photo: Gerd Curley Over 200 people attended the blessing of a new shrine commemorating the victims of two atrocities during the troubles in a Belfast parish in a “deeply moving” event.
Fr Patrick McCafferty PP of Corpus Christi Parish said the blessing of the shrine to St Teresa of Calcutta moved many people to tears.
The event took place on All Saints Day with Bishop Noel Treanor celebrating Mass. The relic was carried in procession to the shrine by David McCafferty Snr (90), father of David (15), who was one of the victims.
The new shrine in Corpus Christi Church, as well as honouring the Saint of Calcutta who left a tremendous legacy of love and goodness in the parish from her two years living there (1971-1973), also serves as a memorial to the victims of the Ballymurphy and Springhill-Westrock massacres.
The shrine contains a central image of Mother Teresa and her relic and is flanked, on either side, by cameos of the two priests and fourteen parishioners slain in the two atrocities.
Also included, surmounting the shrine, is a depiction of the Apparition at Knock. Local artist Paul Morrison is behind the artwork.