Priest dies after being struck by falling wooden cross during livestreamed Mass.
Father Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari, a Redemptorist priest, died on October 17, after a large wooden cross detached from the wall behind the altar and struck him during Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
The Archdiocese of Guayaquil confirmed his death. It remains unclear why the cross fell.
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