Priest hopes Sept. 11 memorial provides place of healing

Published: 2004-09-09

STIRLING, N.J. (CNS) -- Every day bells toll at the Tower of Remembrance near a Catholic shrine in Stirling in remembrance of the 2,985 people who died during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington. The bells ring every 46 minutes after every hour from 8:46 a.m., the time when the first attack occurred, until 8:46 p.m. The tower, surrounded by trees on the property of the Shrine of St. Joseph, was constructed with steel that was part of the 33rd through 36th floors of the north tower of the World Trade Center. The tower's bells are from the now-closed Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity's seminary in Monroe, Va. Listed on two walls on either side of the tower are the names of every victim killed when planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and another plane crashed at Shanksville, Pa. Surrounding the names are items left behind by those who have come to remember them.

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