I don’t know when the doors to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church opened on Saturday night. I don’t know who opened them, either — maybe one of the Virginia Cavaliers’ more passionate fans who made a certain promise or two in the final minute of the Hoos’ heart-stopping national semifinal win over the Auburn Tigers, and decided to follow through in short order. Maybe someone just wanted to ring the bell to celebrate in the best way they knew how.
But the doors were open, and the bell was ringing. Punctuating each cuss word and song lyric and shout to the heavens, the tolls of that bell affirmed to everyone within earshot that some off-the-wall, near-indescribable miracle had happened again.