Personal message for Marco from above?:shrug:
USA Today
Tragedy struck just days before the canonization of Pope John Paul II when a giant crucifix dedicated to the late pontiff crushed an unfortunate pilgrim in northern Italy.
The victim, 21-year-old Marco Gusmini, was posing for photographs with other members of a group of young Catholics in front of the 100-foot wooden cross when it suddenly collapsed Thursday, the Telegraph reports.
The local mayor calls the collapse of the cross, which bore a 20-foot, 1,300-pound statue of Christ, an "unexplainable tragedy."
"When they heard the crunching noises coming from the cross they fled in all directions," the mayor says. "Unfortunately Marco ran in the wrong direction."
USA Today
Tragedy struck just days before the canonization of Pope John Paul II when a giant crucifix dedicated to the late pontiff crushed an unfortunate pilgrim in northern Italy.
The victim, 21-year-old Marco Gusmini, was posing for photographs with other members of a group of young Catholics in front of the 100-foot wooden cross when it suddenly collapsed Thursday, the Telegraph reports.
The local mayor calls the collapse of the cross, which bore a 20-foot, 1,300-pound statue of Christ, an "unexplainable tragedy."
"When they heard the crunching noises coming from the cross they fled in all directions," the mayor says. "Unfortunately Marco ran in the wrong direction."
