The man in the trenchcoat stood in the ruined church, gazing down at a fallen crucifix, its life-sized image of Jesus broken, bashed and half-covered in rubble. Nearby, a statue of the Virgin Mary, somehow still erect after intense bombing, looked down with the man, her eyes seemingly full of sorrow. It was 1945, and the man US Army Chaplain Frederick A. McDonald then
For more than 50 years, shards of colorful glass had been stored in an old Italian shoe box under Fred McDonald s bed. An Army chaplain during WWII, McDonald gathered the shards from bombed and bullet-riddled churches throughout Europe during the war.