Blessing God from the Bottom of a Salt Mine

In 1668, deep beneath the earth in Wieliczka, Poland, miners carved something astonishing into the walls of their salt mine — a chapel. For centuries, these men descended each morning into darkness, knowing that cave-ins, flooding, and toxic gases could claim their lives before sunset. Yet instead of cursing the depths, they filled them with praise. They sculpted chandeliers from crystallized salt, carved altars and relief sculptures of biblical scenes, and gathered underground to worship the God who held the rock above their heads.…