Original airdate: 2/10/2020 | Days after the celebration of Christ's birth, a historic church in Puerto Rico was claimed by disaster. Built in 1841, little remains of the the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Guayanilla.
On Jan. 6, Jimmy Machicote was in his usual morning spot outside the church, playing dominoes with the boys when a 5.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the area.
Brick by brick, Machicote saw his church come down.
"We have beautiful memories," said Machicote. "Most of all, my kids were all baptized there. My daughter was married there."
"As soon as it cracked, then the sides came down. All the sides, all the walls, just come down," added Machicote, who was feet away from the church during the earthquake. "Where it collapsed is where I used to sit. Everybody, the women, were crying and hollering and very hysterical."
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