The Nails of Coventry Cathedral
On the morning of November 15, 1940, the people of Coventry, England, emerged from their shelters to find their beloved medieval cathedral reduced to a...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 2:1-5.
On the morning of November 15, 1940, the people of Coventry, England, emerged from their shelters to find their beloved medieval cathedral reduced to a smoking shell. The Luftwaffe had gutted the sanctuary in a single night of relentless bombing. Provost Richard Howard walked through the smoldering ruins, gathered two charred roof timbers, and bound them into a cross. Then he scratched two words into the sandstone wall behind the altar: "Father Forgive."…
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