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Article: As I said 'I do' the church shook ..guests ran out screaming; IRISH GROOM ON QUAKE THAT NEARLY ENDED WEDDING DAY.(News)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2009
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Byline: MICHELLE O'KEEFFE
AS Irish groom Ian Devine said "I Do" to his Italian bride the earth moved - quite literally.
Ian was in the middle of pledging his love to bride Monica D'Agostina when the 800-year-old church on a hilltop in Monte Cassino shook on Thursday.
Terrified wedding guests fled the ceremony fearing for their lives as the earthquake hit 3.9 on the Richter scale.
It caused the roof of the chapel to look like it was going to collapse and the columns tremor.
But Ian, from Drogheda, Co Louth, and Monica never moved ...