Title: ON HOLY GROUND by Patricia Santos Marcantonio
Description
Catholics have always enjoyed beautiful churches and St. Edward's is no exception. It has been called the most beautiful church in Idaho. Award winning author Marcantonio celebrates its beauty, history, art and faith through the words of the parishioners, priests and visitors to the church. She details the stained glass windows, angels, bells, pillars, cornices. ceilings and all the other architectural details that went into creating the beauty of the structure which helps sustain the faith of the people who call St. Edward's home.

Twin Falls came into being with the coming of irrigation water in 1904. Early Catholics met in various places around town. The Twin Falls Canal Company donated land at the corner of Second Avenue and Fifth Street and ground was broken on the church building in 1920. The St. Edward Catholic Church building was completed and consecrated in 1921. Marcantonio interweaves the history of St. Edward's building and congregation with the history of the city from the beginning to the present.

The book contains 112 pages. Photos are by Bonnie Dodge.

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Author Patricia Santos Marcantonio has a degree in mass communications from the University of Southern Colorado.

In the spring of 2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York published her first book of fiction, "Red Ridin' in the Hood and other Cuentos." The book has earned several recommendations, including from Booklist.

She has won several state and regional journalism awards and short story contests.

For her screenwriting, she placed second in the Phoenix Film Festival screenplay contest, is in the top 55 in the Women in Film Las Vegas competition, is a semifinalist in the Writer's Network Screenplay and Fiction competition and quarterfinalist in the Cinestory Short Script contest.

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Price: $11.00