Judge’s neck was swollen and appeared to be broken. Eventually his body was carried by two firemen, an FDNY medical technician, a police lieutenant and a civilian bystander into St. Smith, another fire chaplain from Patchogue, NY blessed the body on curb. Obscured by the cloud of dust, it was only after the incident that the men nearby saw that Fr Judge had been struck down and killed.
The impact of the implosion was so violent that parts of the compromised North Tower building fell. The force of the building falling on itself blew cement dust and debris at speeds estimated to be 100mph. Late that morning, he was in the North Tower lobby surrounded by rescue workers when the South Tower collapsed. "Supplies were piled six feet high all over the pews, bandages, gas masks, boots, hoses and cans of food for the workers and the volunteers, many of whom were sleeping in the pews on bedrolls."įather Mychal Judge OFM, the beloved chaplain of the New York Fire Department, was early to the scene of the disaster, giving absolution and prayers for the wounded and dying. Everything was in disarray," Fr Kevin Madigan stated. "We were the first place they were bringing all the emergency equipment. The doors of St Peter’s stayed open to America’s heroes, and the church transformed into a relief supply station.
The church was open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for the workers until the end of October 2001 when martial law was lifted and workers returned to work downtown. After 9/11 far fewer were coming to weekday morning and lunch hour Masses because the roughly 50,000 workers in the towers had to work in new locationsĭuring these operations, Fr Madigan celebrated Mass, heard Confession and provided pastoral care to rescue workers and those allowed to enter the area. The parish can’t be certain of all the members of the parish who were lost, since many don’t register but we do know that a lector at St Peter’s and a parishioner at the mission of St Joseph’s Chapel were killed on that day. Roman Catholics were the most represented faith group of those lost in the attacks. It speaks of life’s journeyįor the innocent, whose lives were taken from them, this cross stands as a memorial.įor the courageous, who faced death so othersįor all of us, walking the streets today, The inscription on this memorial book of names is: The names were etched in such a way that rubbings can be taken by visitors. The base of the cross includes a metal book with 35 pages listing the names of all the 9/11 Twin Tower victims. When it rains, rust from the piece of metal will drip down the rest of the cross, simulating a bleeding heart.
That hole was sealed up with a piece of the fallen World Trade Center. The cross was built hollow, and on his way to New York from California, Jon Krawczyk encouraged people to put notes and symbols of loss inside. The artist, selected by Cardinal Egan to craft the new cross, was sculptor Jon Krawczyk who was raised in New Jersey. A hollow spot in the cross holds the remains of the original Twin Tower wreckage. The original 9/11 cross was found in the wreckage of the twin towers and subsequently mounted here on this site October 15, 2006, where it stayed until it was moved Jto the September 11 th Memorial & Museum at the former World Trade Center site across the street. Out of the rubble of New York City’s Twin Towers on that fateful 9/11 morning emerged a symbol of hope: a perfectly proportioned cross formed from the steel girders of the previously standing twin towers.
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