I received this in an Email. It is from a prominent newspaper in Chile. Unfortunately there is no link, but there is a color photo of Alex Vega "proudly displaying his shirt after exiting the capsule."
"COPIAPO-Excited and surprised have been the relatives of the first miners pulled from the San Jose mine, but the impact was not only to see them again. Another surprise was the shirts that most of them wore on top of the special suit they used when they emerged to the surface. The shirts, which have a large white star on a blue square and red on the chest, have written the phrase "Gracias Senor! Thank Your Lord" On the back it reads another sentence that says: "In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him... For His is the honor and Glory," which corresponds to verse 4 of Psalm 95.
Pastor Carlos Parra, of the Adventist church in the Atacama Region, told Terra TV that the message of the T-shirts is "precious" and that while he knew his church hd sent them, the miners kept them as a surprise and wore them. "And the miners kept from telling him because it was a surprise."
Alberto Segovia, Segovia's brother David, one of the "33", was pleasantly surprised. "We did not think they were going out with them, only with green special suits, but when we saw the first miners shirt, I was surprised," he said.
Segovia believes that the use of the shirt with that message makes it clear that the miners come spiritually renewed from the bottom of the earth. David told me out of here the first thing I would do is to go to church and thank God.
The local Adventist church has played a vital role attending the families of the miners at "Camp Hope" during the 70 days.
