Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco

Coordinates: 37°48′5.77″N 122°24′36.71″W / 37.8016028°N 122.4101972°W / 37.8016028; -122.4101972
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Saints Peter and Paul Church
Archbishop of San Francisco
Location
Location
Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco is located in San Francisco
Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco
Location of Saints Peter and Paul Church
Geographic coordinates37°48′5.77″N 122°24′36.71″W / 37.8016028°N 122.4101972°W / 37.8016028; -122.4101972
Architecture
Completed1924
Direction of façadeSouth
Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco
Hanyu Pinyin
Guānhuà Shèngbǎoluó Shèngbǐde Jiàotáng

Saints Peter and Paul Church (

Italian-American
community since its consecration. It offers English, Italian, and Cantonese-language services.

History

The first Saints Peter and Paul Church, built in 1884 on the corner of Filbert Street and Grant Avenue, was destroyed by the Great Quake of 1906. Construction on the current building was completed in 1924.[1]

During 1926–27, the church was the target of radical anti-Catholic

anarchists, who, in the name of propaganda of the deed, instituted five separate bombing attacks against the building in the space of one year.[2] On March 6, 1927, officers of the San Francisco Police Department shot and killed one man and seriously wounded another, Celsten Eklund, a radical anarchist and local soapbox orator, as the two men attempted to light the fuse of a large dynamite bomb in front of the church.[2] The dead man, known only as 'Ricca', was never fully identified; Eklund died of his wounds some time later without giving any information about his co-conspirators.[2]

In recent years, Saints Peter and Paul has also become the home church for the city's

Chinese-American Catholic population, offering weekly masses in Italian, Cantonese, and English. The Tridentine Mass in Ecclesiastical Latin is offered monthly as well.[3]

Saints Peter and Paul serves the

Archdiocese of San Francisco
.

In popular culture

The church is prominently featured in the

Sister Act 2 were also filmed here.[4] Both the exterior and the interior of the church were prominently featured in the 1994 movie Getting Even with Dad, starring Macaulay Culkin
.

After their civil ceremony in 1954,

annullment),[5] he could not be married in the Catholic Church. In a side entrance, Sts. Peter and Paul Church still showcases a photo in a book displaying proudly DiMaggio's marriage day photo—but with Arnold, not Monroe. DiMaggio's funeral was held here on March 11, 1999, officiated by lifelong family friend and confidant, Armand Oliveri, S.D.B., who politely refuses all interviews or requests to discuss any intimate details of Monroe's or DiMaggio's life.[6]

American pop singer Michelle Lambert considers this church her spiritual home, and even portrayed Mary in “Las Posadas de San Francisco,” parade in 2010.[7]

In the 2015 disaster film San Andreas, the church and Washington Square was seen being hit by a tsunami as it reaches North Beach.

The protagonist of Wendell Berry's novella Remembering, Andy Catlett, walks by the church and reads the Italian inscription over its portal: the opening lines of Dante's Paradisio.

References

  1. ^ "History". Saints Peter & Paul Church. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4399-0028-4
    (2010) pp. 24-27
  3. ^ "Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco -- Holy Week". salesiansspp.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22.
  4. ^ "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) - Filming locations". IMDB.
  5. ^ Prior to the Second Vatican Council, an annulment, or "Catholic divorce," was not as readily available as it is today. See http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/28_Annulments.pdf and it is unlikely that DiMaggio could have obtained one even if he had asked for one.
  6. ^ "Joe dimaggios grave - Marilyn Monroe Photos on ThisIsMarilyn.com". Archived from the original on 2016-08-05. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  7. ^ "North Beach festival highlights parallels between homeless, Holy Family". 15 December 2010. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016.

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