9/11 Museum acquires prayer bench used by Rev. Mychal Judge The Rev. Sister Barbara Smith, of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, prays on a prayer bench that belonged to The Rev. Mychal Judge, the Fire Department of New York s chaplain who died in the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, at the Episcopal Carmel of Saint Teresa in Rising Sun, Md., on Sunday, April 4, 2021. The Episcopal Carmel of Saint Teresa donated the prayer bench to the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum, representatives of which acquired the bench later in the morning. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark) | Photo: AP Updated: April 04, 2021 05:20 PM Created: April 04, 2021 04:17 PM
9-11 Museum acquires prayer bench used by Rev. Mychal Judge
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 4, 2021 at 6:27 pm EDT
The Rev. Sister Barbara Smith, of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, prays on a prayer bench that belonged to The Rev. Mychal Judge, the Fire Department of New York s chaplain who died in the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, at the Episcopal Carmel of Saint Teresa in Rising Sun, Md., on Sunday, April 4, 2021. The Episcopal Carmel of Saint Teresa donated the prayer bench to the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum, representatives of which acquired the bench later in the morning. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
A prayer bench used by the Rev. Mychal Judge, a Fire Department of New York chaplain killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers Sept. 11, 2001, was driven from Rising Sun to the New York area Sunday to join the collection of the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum, museum officials said.
The Franciscan friar was the first certified victim of the disaster after he rushed to the World Trade Center when the first plane smashed into the North Tower.
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