Blessed John Duns Scotus RC Church
Modern Franciscan church shaped like a ship's prow, keeping a gilded reliquary of St Valentine.
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This guide to Blessed John Duns Scotus Church in the Gorbals, Glasgow, follows a reliquary that a wealthy French family handed to the Church in eighteen sixty-eight, and the Franciscan friars who kept it. It passes through the old St Francis' Church on Cumberland Street and the rebuilding that left this modern church as the district's last Catholic parish. Best heard standing inside, in front of the glass case near the front.
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