Thousands of people are anticipated to visit Liverpool's two cathedrals later to see the saint's relics, which are connected to the Lourdes Catholic shrine.
The remains of Bernadette Soubirous are expected to arrive first in the city's Anglican cathedral at 10:30 BST, which is an unusual move.
They will be transferred to the city's Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral later today and held there until Tuesday.
This month, the artifacts started their tour of England and Wales.
Relic veneration is typically a Roman Catholic practice that was condemned by the new Christian sects that developed during the Reformation.
The Anglican church, according to The Very Reverend Dr Sue Jones, Dean of Liverpool Cathedral, is "very honored to be receiving the remains of St. Bernadette."
For Christians in our area, "we know this will be a spiritually stirring occasion," she said.
Canon The visit to both cathedrals, according to Anthony O'Brien, dean of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, was "a stunning witness" to Catholic-Anglican relations.
After gathering firewood by the River Gave at Lourdes in the French Pyrenees, Bernadette Soubirous, who was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1933, claimed to have 18 visions of a woman in white between 11 February and 16 July 1858.
When the kid explained that the woman had claimed to be "The Immaculate Conception," a Catholic concept defined just four years earlier by Pope Pius IX and a title a poor miller's daughter would not know, the originally doubtful church authorities took the teenager seriously.
Catholics hold that Mary, Jesus' mother, was blameless at birth.
The healings of 70 people who either drank or bathed in the waters at Lourdes have been formally recognized as unexplainable cures by the Catholic Church, who claims that her alleged visions of the Virgin Mary are "worthy of belief."
Every year, millions of pilgrims go there.
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