Ground Zero Cross on the Move Again
HOUSTON BELIEF
April 8, 2011
NEW YORK - The Cross at Ground Zero was one of thousands of I-beams used to construct the iron skeletons of the World Trade Center towers. This one fell from the fiery, apocalyptic heavens during the 9/11 terror attacks and stuck upright in the ground, in a field of similar but smaller crosses. It was later blessed and draped with a sheet-metal shroud from the wreckage, then hoisted atop a concrete stanchion from the destroyed plaza at the corner of Church and Liberty Streets. The cross stayed there until October 2006, when it was moved for preliminary construction work at the site to nearby St. Peter's Church. The cross will soon move again, to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at Ground Zero. The church however will not be without a 9/11 cross for long. Sculptor Jon Krawczyk is making a replacement, a stainless steel "9/11 Memorial Cross." Krawczyk's 9/11 cross will have three pieces of metal saved from the World Trade Center debris. [link]
April 8, 2011
NEW YORK - The Cross at Ground Zero was one of thousands of I-beams used to construct the iron skeletons of the World Trade Center towers. This one fell from the fiery, apocalyptic heavens during the 9/11 terror attacks and stuck upright in the ground, in a field of similar but smaller crosses. It was later blessed and draped with a sheet-metal shroud from the wreckage, then hoisted atop a concrete stanchion from the destroyed plaza at the corner of Church and Liberty Streets. The cross stayed there until October 2006, when it was moved for preliminary construction work at the site to nearby St. Peter's Church. The cross will soon move again, to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at Ground Zero. The church however will not be without a 9/11 cross for long. Sculptor Jon Krawczyk is making a replacement, a stainless steel "9/11 Memorial Cross." Krawczyk's 9/11 cross will have three pieces of metal saved from the World Trade Center debris. [link]
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