Priest speaks about death moments before giant cross falls on him at church, killing him. A priest in Ecuador died after a giant wooden cross fell on him at a church, moments after he spoke about death. Father Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari was reportedly speaking about the words of Jesus. "One day, all of us...will...die, and sometimes the time we've spent on things doesn’t have as much meaning as...time we spend with God," he said.