The Rejected Stone of Coventry Cathedral
On the morning of November 15, 1940, German bombers reduced Coventry Cathedral to a smoldering skeleton. Only the outer walls and the blackened spire survived....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29.
On the morning of November 15, 1940, German bombers reduced Coventry Cathedral to a smoldering skeleton. Only the outer walls and the blackened spire survived. The people of Coventry stood among the ruins and wept. Everything sacred seemed lost. But the morning after the bombing, the cathedral's provost, Richard Howard, gathered two charred roof beams from the wreckage and bound them into the shape of a cross.…
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