Twenty five years ago the old brick St Anne's Salem church was totally devasted in an after midnight conflagration.
Fr. B woke up at 2am to the unexplained ringing of the church bell.
The bell and some other artifacts are all the remain from the confligration.
In Christianity, fire is a symbol of the Holy Ghost. It is also often used in descriptions of Hell. Additionally, a fire is used in the Roman Catholic Mass during the Easter Vigil. In the Middle Ages, the judgment of God was appealed to by the ordeal of fire. In Spain, bonfires as associated to the eve of Saint John the Evangelist, a Christianization of the summer solstice, especially in Alicante. In Valencia, Saint Joseph is celebrated by burning allegorical figures on the streets, a Christianization of the spring equinox.