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Tabernacle Saved, Though Hearts Ache: Flames Destroy North Haledon Chapel Tabernacle Saved, Though Hearts Ache: Flames Destroy North Haledon Chapel
Tabernacle Saved, Though Hearts Ache: Flames Destroy North Haledon Chapel Students cried Friday morning as they walked past the soot-covered windows of the chapel at Mary Help of Christians Academy in North Haledon, which was destroyed by an overnight fire. Inside, the altar was charred, pews had melted and the Peragallo pipe organ was ravaged. This after work was completed just two years ago to repair water damage. “Though our hearts are heavy, we are fortunate to be able to report that no one was harmed and that firemen were able to rescue the most precious item in the chapel: the tabernacle,” the St. Joseph Province of the Salesian Sisters wrote. A “testamen…

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by Jerry DeMarco