Steel Beams Found by Laborer amid the World Trade Center in Shape of a Cross

Yahoo News | Oct. 3, and 4, 2001 | Photo/Kathy Willens, Pool and AP Photo/Ed Betz

[Teacup]

Workers at the World Trade Center disaster site look
up at a large illuminated cross near the
rubble of the collapsed buildings in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2001...

Firefighters, police, and construction workers join in a ceremony, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2001, at Ground Zero in New York, blessing a cross of steel beams found by a laborer amid the World Trade Center debris two days after the twin tower collapsed. The cross was moved to its present location Wednesday.

Apparently of steel beams was found by a laborer amid the World Trade Center debris two days after the twin tower collapsed. The fire fighter have been very inspiried by this.

[Teacup]

PING

[sphinx]

I hope they set the cross up on public property and defy the ACLU to come after it.

[michigander]

This undated photo of two metal beams, center, that form a cross that rises out of the
destruction at the World Trade Center, was made available in New York, Thursday, Oct. 4,
2001. The cast iron "cross," which fell intact from Tower One into nearby Building Six on Sept.
11., was blessed on Thursday by Rev. Brian Jordan, a Franciscan priest, as rescue workers
who have adopted it as a symbol of faith gathered around to watch. (AP Photo/Pool)

[Texaggie79]

[lawgirl]

Oh interesting. A good reminder that God is with us even in this terrible time, and I hope that someday we will be privy to the good that is going to come out of this.

[lawgirl]

I don't get the part of the blessing by the priest. Oh Catholic friends- what is the meaning/significance of blessing an item like that? (curious)

[Alkhin]

BUMP!

[Teacup]

Thank you for the extra pictures. I looked for more. Glad you have them.

[sam_paine]

Will make a nice addition to the memorial site, but really, what are the odds that there was a cross-brace beam configuration somewhere in a skyscraper. Pretty high!

I mean, it's not built on independent 1000 foot poles, ya know. They're all tied together by something under tension or the thing would accordian down to start with.

Anyway, don't flame me, I'm just saying that this isn't a sign of God, it's a sign of Architectural Engineering, which I suppose is a minor discipline of God and Physics.....

[sam_paine]

The cast iron "cross," which fell intact

More needless nitpicking: These beams are forged steel, not cast iron.

Even though the reporters don't, I'm sure God knows the difference.

[Teacup]

There is another story about a little chapel near the WTC who was not touched at all. I see the prist blessing the cross as symbolic. I think it's amazing the cross looks so good.

[Howlin]

I do not see how these people do this work. The images alone send me into deep depression. How much can these people take?

[Grut]

Riiight... there are probably a lot more beams shaped like a crescent (symbol of Islam) in that rubble.

[Teacup]

PING

[wayne_shrugged]

That would be the little Greek Church that faced south?

[comitatus]

I think the sign of God is not the cross itself, but the response to it by the men who needed the symbol of hope to keep going.

[Teacup]

I guess that's why these guys are special. If the shape of this cross gives them the strenth to carry one, then that's ok with me.