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A cross formed from a falling steel I-beam at the former World Trade Center towers was placed outside St. Peter's Catholic Church in lower Manhattan where the Rev. Kevin Madigan kept watch over it until its pending move to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Photo by John Munson/The Star-Ledger
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(RNS1-APR06) A cross formed from a falling steel I-beam at the former World Trade Center towers was placed outside St. Peter’s Catholic Church in lower Manhattan where the Rev. Kevin Madigan kept watch over it until its pending move to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. For use with RNS-GROUNDZERO-CROSS, transmitted April 6, 2011. RNS photo by John Munson/The Star-Ledger.

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