Crossing Traditions

 

Elie Wiesel in 2012   (Photo by David Shankbone)

Washington D.C.’s National Cathedral certainly has its share of crosses.  One important one will soon be added: a bust of Elie Wiesel, symbolizing a vital intersection between Jewish and Christian traditions.

This crossing rests upon a shared sense of “great morality and ethics.”  The cathedral’s dean, Rev. Randy Hollerith, explained that Wiesel exemplified “the highest aspirations of what it means to be a human.”

Wiesel’s sculpture will be in excellent company, as nearby ones include those of Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks and the Episcopal martyr, Jonathan Daniels. Daniels was murdered in 1965 while bodily shielding a fellow civil rights activist from the wrath of a shotgun-wielding Alabama deputy.

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