As landscaper Salvador Maya sawed into a large pine tree on the lawn of Escondido, California’s First Congregational Church, he stepped back in awe, then spontaneously crossed himself.

He yelled at his boss, Jim Rants, to come look.

The cross (Photo by Jim Rants)

“Look at this,” he exclaimed. “It’s a cross …

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