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Giant Pope John Paul II Crucifix Collapses And Kills Young Man In Italy
The Huffington Post ^ | 4/24/14 | Yasmine Hafiz

Posted on 04/24/2014 12:34:37 PM PDT by BlatherNaut

Edited on 04/24/2014 12:35:57 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Just two days before the canonization of Pope John Paul II, a giant crucifix erected in his honor collapsed in Italy, crushing a young man and killing him, according to ANSA.

A piece of the 30-meter (98-foot) high wooden crucifix fell down during an event near the village of Cevo, in northern Italy, instantly killing the 21-year-old man. The Jesus Christ figure attached to the cross is six meters high and weighs 600 kg, according to AFP.


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TOPICS: Catholic
KEYWORDS: crucifix; giantcrucifix; italy; johnpaulii; johnpauliicrucifix; marcogusmini; popejohnpaulii; romancatholicism
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1 posted on 04/24/2014 12:34:37 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: BlatherNaut

Very strange


2 posted on 04/24/2014 12:39:55 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: BlatherNaut

He’s got his ticket punched, for sure! RIP. :)


3 posted on 04/24/2014 12:41:41 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: BlatherNaut
A sign that this canonization is not all its cracked up to be? Seriously, I have my doubts on both parts of this double canonization.
4 posted on 04/24/2014 12:43:21 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture)
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To: BlatherNaut

Looks more like modern art than a real Crucifix. Never get too close to one of those big metal sculptures.


5 posted on 04/24/2014 12:46:21 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: BlatherNaut

Bummer, dude. Seriously - when it’s your time ...


6 posted on 04/24/2014 12:53:28 PM PDT by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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To: BlatherNaut

Wow....I think the SSPX is “thinking’ that God is trying to reveal something to us.


7 posted on 04/24/2014 12:54:09 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: BlatherNaut

Reminds me of what happened after the Philistines captured the ark of the covenant. (Except, in the case of that false religion, nobody was killed when its idol toppled over.)


8 posted on 04/24/2014 1:00:43 PM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: BlatherNaut

hate to say it, but someone definitely wanted this guy shipped home for review, pronto


9 posted on 04/24/2014 1:07:52 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Cicero
Looks more like modern art than a real Crucifix. Never get too close to one of those big metal sculptures.

No kidding. Ugly-looking, peculiarly curved and top-heavy, destined from its inception to lose its fight with gravity.

10 posted on 04/24/2014 1:25:40 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: sten
Down further in the article it says a 72-year-old woman got killed when another crucifix fell down. That happened in 2004 with a metal crucifix. Weird town name or abbreviation, in the town of Satn'Onofrio.

If it makes anybody feel any better, Larry Kudlow is a zealous Catholic convert and often speaks of being delivered from drink and drugs. He is eagerly anticipating his trip to Rome for the canonization.

11 posted on 04/24/2014 1:27:04 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: steve86

Perhaps God is trying to tell us something?


12 posted on 04/24/2014 1:29:34 PM PDT by piusv
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“In what one Italian newspaper called “a tragedy full of disturbing coincidences”, the victim lived with his parents in a town called Lovere in Via Papa Giovanni XXIII – Pope John XXIII Street”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10786410/Man-crushed-to-death-by-giant-crucifix-dedicated-to-Pope.html


13 posted on 04/24/2014 1:29:52 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: BlatherNaut; Gamecock

Just two days before the canonization of Pope John Paul II, a giant crucifix erected in his honor collapsed in Italy, crushing a young man and killing him, according to ANSA. A piece of the 30-meter (98-foot) high wooden crucifix fell down during an event near the village of Cevo, in northern Italy, instantly killing the 21-year-old man. The Jesus Christ figure attached to the cross is six meters high and weighs 600 kg, according to AFP.

"Jesus never killed anyone" PING

14 posted on 04/24/2014 1:29:57 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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looks like it split/failed around where the first guidewire bolts were drilled. bet that weakened it and they probably didn’t waterproof it afterwards.


15 posted on 04/24/2014 1:35:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BlatherNaut

Uh, yeah.


16 posted on 04/24/2014 1:37:12 PM PDT by piusv
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Horrible. It was ugly, and it’s a pity it didn’t fall down without killing anybody.

I spend a lot of time in Europe, and virtually everywhere I go, there’s a monument or two or three...to JPII. Some of them were paid for by him.

I was particularly distressed when I was on Malta and went to the cave where it is traditionally and probably accurately thought that St Paul stayed in during his time on Malta...and I saw a giant statue of JPII praying in front of the cave, which actually blocked the cave and put all the focus on JPII. St Paul? Who’s he?


17 posted on 04/24/2014 2:50:29 PM PDT by livius
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18 posted on 04/24/2014 2:53:35 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Alex Murphy

I was there last Sept, a friend of mine’s father worked on it there in Cevo. This is very sad!


19 posted on 04/24/2014 3:00:03 PM PDT by GrndLkNatv
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I was there in Sept last year. A friend of mine’s dad actually helped to build it. Their house is visible on the hill behind the monument. It’s a very sad day there in Cevo..


20 posted on 04/24/2014 3:00:03 PM PDT by GrndLkNatv
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