LA firefighter salvages tabernacle from Corpus Christi rubble

Last known image of Corpus Christi Church: Mgr Liam Kidney celebrating Mass with schoolchildren hours before fire destroyed the church. (Archdiocese of LA/Corpus Christi Church)

Source: Archdiocese of LA

Ann Rodgers reports on Angelus News:

Four days after Corpus Christi Church was incinerated in the Palisades fire, Captain Bryan Nassour of the Los Angeles Fire Department picked his way over a six-foot layer of rubble in the ashen bones of the sanctuary and recovered the tabernacle.

"I did it because the whole community has been decimated - it looks like a nuclear bomb has gone off and nothing is standing," said Nassour, a member of St. Francis de Sales Church in Sherman Oaks, whose brother belongs to Corpus Christi.

"My brother lost his home. I have close friends who lost everything but the shirts on their backs, and they belong to that church too. So, if I could save just one thing, let it be this, so they have something to believe in."

To read on see: https://angelusnews.com/local/la-catholics/corpus-christi-tabernacle/

See earlier report Los Angeles: Church destroyed, schools damaged by wildfires
Jan 8th, 2025: www.indcatholicnews.com/news/51473