On this day, just 18 days before the Five Days of Prayer for the Consecration of the United States of America to the Cross of Jesus Christ at Caritas of Birmingham began, the footers were poured to support a three-quarter million pound Cross on Penitentiary Mountain overlooking the Bedroom and Field of Apparitions. This Cross is an exact replica of the one on top of Cross Mountain in Medjugorje and was placed on the mountain to acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of Mankind and to consecrate the United States to the Cross. Inscribed in the footer for the Cross were the words: For the Soul of America.
