by KYW's Mike DeNardo

A cross bound for "World Youth Day," this July in Australia, will carry the prayers of people from South Jersey. 

The three-foot wooden cross is traveling across the Diocese of Camden before it heads to World Youth Day and a papal mass in Sydney on July 20th. 

Lauren Adderly, 18, a senior at Camden Catholic High School, has been gathering parishioners' prayers on the cross for the past week:
 
"They want us to pray for grandparents or a sick family member or even themselves. Some people have gotten very emotional with the cross."
 
She has her own prayer:

"I'd like to offer this cross for, I guess, peace for everyone -- because it's the world coming together for this World Youth Day. And if only the rest of the world could see this, and respond to this as a model that everyone is all together, kind of united for one cause."

Adderly says the South Jersey delegation will present the cross to young people in the Sydney suburb of Camden.

(Photo by KYW's Mike DeNardo)