Candles?
Sad. I hope it isn’t arson.
“Holy Fire” accident?
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http://abc7ny.com/news/fdny-on-the-scene-of-massive-fire-at-manhattan-church/1317849/
ISIS burning churches overseas now.
Terrible fire. I hope there is no one in it.
And the comments on the site are horrible.
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GRP/GRP021.htm
That's enough for now. Hope everybody got out all right. It's a massive fire, must be a lot of combustibles inside those stone churches.
Blessed Jesus, Savior of those that believe. This reminds me of when US/UN commander of NATO ( GET OUT) ,WESLEY CLARKE! bombed AND KILLED Serbian Christians on Easter in support of godless cut throat moslems in SERBIA on EASTER!! Where is that low life? Get him out here.
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Gospodi pomiluj!
(Lord, have mercy)
NYC values....
So sorry to read about this.
This church was built as a “chapel” of Trinty Church Wall Street which is arguably one of the richest individual churches in America. This building is larger than most regular parish churches. Trinty at one time own a quarter of southrn Manhattan. I was not aware of this church, but in 1976 Trinty spun off 10 other chapels in the city into full parishes. One encompasses a whole block in the village with a school and rental housing. Trinty retained St Paul’s Chapel that is three block north because it had no congregation. St. Paul’s was the respite site for 1st responders at the WTC site. It had extensive damage that has been repaired.
I’m working late tonight and am nearby, I can see the fire engines from the window by the elevator bank.
Any evidence of arson or mention of suspects will be suppressed.
My sympathies to the congregation.
I don’t know if they leave candles burning when no one is there. I’ve seen small glass votive candles crack and scatter hot wax and glass. We also had a large votive in one of those cemetery candle holders on my in-laws graves. That one was left burning, and something went awry with it because the most recent time we visited, the holder (plastic) was destroyed and the silk flowers and woodchips around the gravestone were burned. Some churches are using large votives in plastic rather than glass containers.
Ping.