Oklahoma City bombing Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===St. Joseph's Old Cathedral=== [[St. Joseph Old Cathedral (Oklahoma City)|St. Joseph's Old Cathedral]], one of the first brick-and-mortar churches in the city, is located to the southwest of the memorial and was severely damaged by the blast.<ref name="StJoseph1889">{{cite web|author=Oklahoma Historical Society |title=Oklahoma City |publisher=[[Oklahoma State University–Stillwater]] |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/O/OK025.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525163038/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/O/OK025.html |archive-date=May 25, 2011 |author-link=Oklahoma Historical Society |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="StJosephShell">{{cite news |last=Koetting |first=Thomas B. |title=Compelled, They Come: Visitors To The Blast Site – Oklahoma City/One Year Later |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |url=http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960416&slug=2324470 |date=April 16, 1996 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927221923/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960416&slug=2324470 |archive-date=September 27, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> To commemorate the event, a statue and sculpture work entitled ''And Jesus Wept'' was installed adjacent to the Oklahoma City National Memorial. The work was dedicated in May 1997 and the church was rededicated on December 1 of the same year. The church, the statue, and the sculpture are not part of the Oklahoma City memorial.<ref name="WeptStatue">{{cite news|title='And Jesus Wept' Statue Vandalized |publisher=[[KOCO-TV]] |url=http://www.koco.com/news/2637568/detail.html |date=November 14, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929181443/http://www.koco.com/news/2637568/detail.html |archive-date=September 29, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page