When UAB Hospital bought St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham last year, most of the Catholic statues, crucifixes and religious artifacts were removed by the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham.
But there was one item too big to easily remove – a giant steel cross that adorned one of the towers at St. Vincent’s Hospital.
That job was left to a crane company where an employee decided to rescue it from a metal scrap heap. Richard Bradley of Gardendale, who was in a men’s Bible study group with him, said it could be put to use where he was doing mission work in Navajo Nation, at the Cornfields Community Baptist Church in Arizona…