Monday, September 24, 2007

Auction includes handwritten Bible verse used in lunar communion

DALLAS - A handwritten card containing a Bible verse that Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin used during a lunar Communion service was up for sale Thursday at a space-related auction.

Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, read John 15:5 during the 1969 mission while using a small amount of wine and a wafer furnished by his Presbyterian church. Heritage Auction Galleries calls the moment the "First Religious Sacrament Performed on Another Heavenly Body."

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