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St Francis of Assisi adoring the Crucifix by Bernardo Strozzi (1581–1644) via Wikimedia Commons.

We stood in Mass as one of the altar servers collapsed onto the hardwood. The thud reverberated everywhere, sounding worse than we could imagine.