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Archbishop blesses new shrine in salt mine 120 stories beneath Detroit
31-10-2009
DETROIT (CNS) -- Clad in a black miner's jacket and sky blue hard hat, Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron descended 1,200 feet and 400 million years into the salt of the earth. The archbishop blessed a newly crafted statue and shrine to St. Barbara, the patroness of miners, at the base of the hoist -- the only portal in or out --- at the Detroit Salt Co. on the city's southwest side, Michigan's lone rock-salt mine.
"We must be disposed and appreciate what this means," Archbishop Vigneron told a group of about 30 miners.
"When the church blesses a statue for people to use, to pray at, we do this because when we look at this statue we see somebody who followed Christ. And we, like that saint, will seek to please Christ.
"Those saints are our friends. They pray for us; they remember us and help us with their love," he said.
Emanuel Manos, company vice president, was inspired to create the shrine after a trip to visit his family in Slovakia in 2008. He met Jan Martinka, a master woodworker, in Rajec, Slovakia, and asked him to make the statue.
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