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Mexican Church Devoured by Lava

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Mexican Church Devoured by Lava

When the people of the small Mexican town of Paricutin heard rumbling and felt the earth shake on February 20, 1943, they thought of an earthquake. When they witnessed a mountain growing out of their cornfields, plus fissures in the earth that emitted sulphurous smells, many thought God had sent them a sign that the end was near. What they would witness was the birth of Paricutin, the youngest volcano of the western hemisphere.

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