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Saint Mark's Episcopal Church: 150 Years of Ministry in downtown San Antonio 1858-2008: 150 Years of Ministry in Downtown San Antonio 1858-2008

Saint Mark's Episcopal Church: 150 Years of Ministry in downtown San Antonio 1858-2008: 150 Years of Ministry in Downtown San Antonio 1858-2008

          
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Saint Mark's Episcopal Church: 150 Years of Ministry in Downtown San Antonio, 1858-2008 tells the story of how a new congregation of 40 Episcopalians struggling against general rowdiness in an isolated frontier outpost of 8,000 inhabitants had the daring to commission Richard Upjohn, the nation's leading church architect, to design their church and then to build it is the start of one of the stories that makes San Antonio such an unusual place. Even the first members caught their breath once the church was finally finished. Fully aware that their new edifice could not match the elegant and costly decorations of the churches in our Eastern cities, one writer nevertheless admitted to a feeling of local pride . . . that old San Antonio, in the wilderness as she is, and almost out of the world as she is thought to be, should possess such a church.

As various denominations worked to establish churches in San Antonio, missionaries were able to form an Episcopal church in town in 1850, but it was another eight years before their efforts bore lasting fruit with St. Mark's. Robert E. Lee and other Episcopalians in the U.S. Army helped keep things going. St. Mark's became one of the major churches in San Antonio and in the Episcopal Church as well. Among its landmark events was the wedding of future President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Taylor in 1934. St. Mark's produced a profusion of bishops as it endured and thrived even as downtown churches elsewhere were having difficult times.

This book, laced with color illustrations, succinctly recounts 150 years of struggles and triumphs in a significant congregations remarkable journey.
About the Author: Celebrated San Antonio historian Lewis F. Fisher, whose Maverick Publishing Company was acquired by Trinity University Press in 2015, has published forty-five books on topics ranging from San Antonio's Spanish heritage to its urban development, and from the military to sports, architecture, and multicultural legends. A former member of the San Antonio River Commission, he has written numerous books himself, including Chili Queens, Hay Wagons, and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio, winner of the 2015 San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award, and Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage, republished in a second edition, and Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend. Fisher has received numerous local, state, and national writing awards and was named a Texas Preservation Hero by the Conservation Society in 2014.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781595347152
  • Publisher: Trinity Univ Pr
  • Publisher Imprint: Maverick Books
  • Height: 277 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 317 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1595347151
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 211 mm


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