Carrara’s marble quarries

These photos, published in this article, unfortunately arrived with the sad news of the accident that occurred yesterday right in the same place I visited just over a week ago in the Massa-Carrara marble quarries. In the accident, a wall of marble came off, sweeping two workers away. At the moment, the workers are still missing under the rubble. We pray to God that some good news could arrive.

Update on 15/4/16: unfortunately, the sad news that we didn’t want to hear has arrived. The firefighters found the bodies lifeless under the stones.

This sad news puts even more stress on the difficulty and danger of hard work such as extracting marble from the quarries. Carrara marble is used in places like the Basilica of St. Peter in Vatican City and many other iconic buildings and sculptures worldwide.