Yeah, but that's not what happened, is it?
This cathedral and the nearly 2,000 people in it, and it's surrounding complex, were saved from death and injury.
I will praise God for His mercy.
Sorry, sorry, sorry!!
The Velankanni Church church dedicated to Our Lady of Health, the Madonna of Velankanni is the one in which 2,000 pilgrims were saved. The water apparently went up to the first few steps and then receded. the buildings around and behind it were destroyed.
Did you hear the report on Fox & Friends several days after the tsunami hit. I was leaving for work, but from what I understand a priest had some orphans on a boat tring to escape the waves. When a large wave approached which he thought would sink the boat, he held out his arms and said, "In the name of God, I order you to stop." The wave did not hit the boat and the people on it were saved.