The Unlocked Door
On December 14, 2010, miners trapped in the Copiapó mine in Chile spent sixty-nine days underground, surviving on two spoonfuls of tuna every forty-eight hours....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Mark 16:1-8.
On December 14, 2010, miners trapped in the Copiapó mine in Chile spent sixty-nine days underground, surviving on two spoonfuls of tuna every forty-eight hours. When rescue capsule "Fénix 2" finally broke through the rock, the first man to ascend — Florencio Ávalos — stepped into blinding sunlight and fell into his wife's arms without saying a word. Reporters noted that several of the rescued miners, upon reaching the surface, stood completely still.…
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