Ev’rythin’s BIGGER In Texas!

groom_cross2While on my recent vacation, I happened to pass through Groom, Texas. As I did so, I saw the GIGANTIC cross that this town is home to.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get a good picture of it as I passed through (I didn’t stop to get a more stable picture), but fortunately a lady in a comments box provided this link.

It’s a MASSIVE cross.

The kind that any TEXAN could be proud of.

Kudos to Groom!

HERE’S A LINK TO A MINISTRY DEVOTED TO THE CROSS

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

9 thoughts on “Ev’rythin’s BIGGER In Texas!”

  1. I’ve seen the exact same kind of cross in mid-Illinois, off of I-70. Granted, I’m not sure if it’s precisely the same size or not, but it was huge.

  3. I’ve having trouble eye-balling this one– can somebody give me a scale bar? Is this cross like 300 feet high?

  4. The cross is 19 stories tall. See the tiny woman in the foreground? Also, those are life size statues of Jesus carrying his cross around its base.

  5. Wow– okay, I see. I mistakingly took those for windmills on first glance. It looks like a corpus about the size of the Statue of Libery would suffice to turn this into one huge crucifix.

  6. They got ’em in Tennessee too. Near Knoxville. Here in Faire Porkopolis they are putting up a 43 foot Jesus at the Solid Rock Church. 😉

  7. “The kind that any TEXAN could be proud of.”
    Hmph. It is the least Thomas could do after raising such an evil child. For those of you who may not be familiar with SWC lore, he’s the one who ran back an interception for a TD against the Good Guys in 1995 (which was, coincidentally, the very same year said cross was erected), commencing a dark era in the history of Texas college football that I can only refer to as the “Lubbock Captivity.” Imagine the callousness required to inflict such misery upon the denizens of the happiest place on Earth! If we hadn’t recently appropriated a coach who is certain to lead us out the darkness and back to the Promised Land in the near future, I’m not sure even the 200-foot cross would have made up for it! 😉
    Sincerely (OK, maybe slightly exaggerated),
    Jonathan Prejean
    Fightin’ Texas Aggie Class of 1996
    PS, Good luck against the t-sippers on 9/11, Jimmy!

  8. Thanks, Jonathan!
    Though… I know football sometimes approaches being a religion in the South, I was just meaning to comment on the cross.
    Much obliged! 😉

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