The Cathedral Rising from the Ashes
On the morning of November 15, 1940, the people of Coventry, England woke to find their beloved St. Michael's Cathedral reduced to a smoldering shell....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Revelation 21:1-6.
On the morning of November 15, 1940, the people of Coventry, England woke to find their beloved St. Michael's Cathedral reduced to a smoldering shell. German bombers had gutted the medieval sanctuary overnight, leaving only skeletal walls and a carpet of charred rubble. The provost, Richard Howard, walked through the ruins that morning and found two charred roof beams fallen in the shape of a cross.…
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