Confligration of Dilemma

That conflagration, thousands stood in awe and trembled
A lesson for the faithful from small beginnings big things can envelop
A taper caught alight, Gods hand works with deflected stealth
Strong foundations of belief so rocked and cracked in the devils breath
Those how were tested, braved the flames
Stood their ground and not be swayed
Ariel platform outlined each in incandescent red
Each held the station of the cross, water jets baptise what could be lost
Inferno held at bay, each firefighter that congregation brave
Statuesque like saints and prophets, saviours in their waterproofs and boots
Shine with deeds of stainless steel, "to save OUR LADY by tooth and nail"
 Left the skeleton its cloudy windows pained
 A rose to shine reborn again from disasters pyre ?
Catholicims dirty secrets so depraved and dire