Voices from the San Antonio Missions

by Luis Torres

Not everyone views preservation of historic buildings in the same way. When the National Park Service agreed to take four Spanish colonial missions of San Antonio under its wing in a collaborative effort to preserve them as monuments, it was with the agreement that the Catholic Church would maintain living parishes at San Jos , Concepci n, Espada, and San Juan. But the parishioners, who were tied to the future of the threatened missions with their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089672378X
• ISBN13: 9780896723788
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"