ST. IGNATIUS - The small brick mission is a jewel, stunning in its setting at the foot of the Mission Mountains. "I want to be here," says Garry "Bob" Salois, "the day an earthquake brings this place down." Its 58 striking frescoes, painted by an Italian Jesuit who was
self-taught, include a life-size image of St. George slaying a dragon
with a hideous human face. "The dragon's face," says Francis "Franny" Burke, "should be Mother Loyola."
The church has been a focal point of religious life in the Mission Valley since the 1830s, when the local Salish tribe sent repeated delegations to St. Louis, asking that the Jesuit "black robes" establish a mission here. "People hate us belittling our town and our church," says Leland "Jimi" Hewankorn, "but they don't know what hell we went through."
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The church has been a focal point of religious life in the Mission Valley since the 1830s, when the local Salish tribe sent repeated delegations to St. Louis, asking that the Jesuit "black robes" establish a mission here. "People hate us belittling our town and our church," says Leland "Jimi" Hewankorn, "but they don't know what hell we went through."
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