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Causes of Saints•Ecumenism•Local Church

Relic of Saint Thomas More could be exhumed from Anglican church to be venerated by Catholics

More’s head, once placed on a pike above London Bridge as a warning to traitors, was rescued by his daughter, Margaret Roper. After her death, both she and the relic were interred in the Roper family vault beneath St Dunstan’s — a space that has been opened several times in the past two centuries, most recently in 1997, confirming the presence of the skull in a niche.

Local Church•Pope Francis

The world’s largest mural dedicated to a pope: Argentina unveils mural dedicated to Pope Francis

The mural’s creator, Martín Ron, is no stranger to large-scale urban art. Renowned for his hyperrealistic technique, Ron has transformed urban walls around the world into vivid portals of storytelling. But this piece, which stretches vertically up a building façade not far from the archdiocesan cathedral, carries particular emotional weight — both for the artist and for a nation that once called Jorge Mario Bergoglio its own.