The Cathedral That Began as Rubble

In 1945, the people of Coventry, England, stood in the wreckage of their beloved St. Michael's Cathedral, reduced to a burned-out shell by German incendiary bombs. The medieval walls that had echoed with seven centuries of prayer were now open to the sky. Old parishioners wept. Some said the congregation should simply meet elsewhere and forget rebuilding. What could possibly replace what they had lost?…