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Historic St. Augustine church bell to ring again after decades of silence
Read full article: Historic St. Augustine church bell to ring again after decades of silenceST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The Trinity Parish Episcopal Church will soon hear the ring of its prized 1942 bell again. Some parishioners attended a pre-dawn ceremony to bless the bell before dawn Friday before a crane lifted it three stories to its home in the church steeple. “One day I went to ring the bell and it went ‘kkkkh’ and then bits of bell came down.”It was brought down and shipped to Cincinnati for repairs. It was lifted back into placePrior to its demise and removal, the bell would ring before services at Trinity, resounding through the Plaza de la Constitucion and knitting together the St. Augustine community with a common reference point, The St. Augustine record reported. “There are a group of men in the parish who grew up here and they would ring the bell as children when they were acolytes.