The Word Carved in the Ashes
When the Great Fire of London consumed Old St. Paul's Cathedral in September 1666, Christopher Wren walked through the smoldering ruins surveying the devastation. Amid...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Genesis 3:9-15, 20.
When the Great Fire of London consumed Old St. Paul's Cathedral in September 1666, Christopher Wren walked through the smoldering ruins surveying the devastation. Amid the charred stones and collapsed walls, a laborer unearthed a fragment of a grave marker. On it was carved a single Latin word: RESURGAM — "I shall rise again." Wren took it as a sign.…
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