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LA Fire captain salvages tabernacle from Corpus Christi rubble

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Four days after Corpus Christi Church was incinerated in the Palisades fire, Captain Bryan Nassour of the Los Angeles Fire Department picked his way over a six-foot layer of rubble in the ashen bones of the sanctuary and recovered the tabernacle.

“I did it because the whole community has been decimated — it looks like a nuclear bomb has gone off and nothing is standing,” said Nassour, a member of St. Francis de Sales Church in Sherman Oaks, whose brother belongs to Corpus Christi.

“My brother lost his home. I have close friends who lost everything but the shirts on their backs, and they belong to that church too. So, if I could save just one thing, let it be this, so they have something to believe in.”

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