MIDTOWN — Every first Wednesday of the month, St. Patrick’s Cathedral hosts a Young Adult Mass. But this March 6, the faithful were welcomed with more than a traditional service. On this occasion, the famed house of worship was the final stop on a tour of a first-class relic of St. Jean de Brébeuf: the skull of the martyr.

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