The View from Third Street

ID: 738 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
This file appears in: St. Francis on the Brazos
The View from Third Street

Before urban renewal demolished the businesses closest to St. Francis, parishioners would often stop in the church to pray while out shopping or visiting neighbors.

This file appears in: St. Francis on the Brazos

By Amanda Sawyer
The founding of St. Francis on the Brazos in 1924 marked the return of Franciscan missionaries to central Texas after a century’s absence. At the invitation of Rev. C.E. Byrne, the bishop of Galveston, Spanish Franciscan missionaries settled in Waco…