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October 14, 2006 Staff photo by John Rottet [/assets/story/image_buynow.comp]
A 4-foot-tall sculpture of praying hands sits atop The Columbarium of Prayers at Wake Memorial Park in Cary, as a jet makes its approach to RDU International Airport. Established in 2004, Wake Memorial Park is featured in the October issues of Good Housekeeping and Redbook. The Columbarium of Prayers will accommodate 192 urns and is about 13 feet tall, including the hands. A widely circulated story holds that, in the 15th century, Albrecht Durer painstakingly drew his brother’s abused hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward. He called his powerful drawing simply ‘Hands,’ but people the world over almost immediately opened their hearts to his great masterpiece and renamed his tribute of love ‘The Praying Hands.’ ‘During the five years of planning and building Wake Memorial Park, the praying hands were an inspiration to me and allowed me to keep my faith alive,’ says Terilyn C. de’Marsi, executive cemetery director and founder. For more information about the park go to wakememorialpark.com. For more information about Albrecht Durer and ‘The Praying Hands,’ see www.ftmagic.com/prayinghands.html.
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