Our Lady's Way: The Story of Our Lady of Peace Church and Shrine FULL COLOR

By Rosemary Alva

In the early 1960s, rural Santa Clara County, California forecasted an unprecedented population and housing growth. Keeping pace with the incoming faithful, the Archdiocese of San Francisco planned new parishes in the soon-to-be-established neighborhoods. One area, named "New Bethlehem" by real estate speculators, thus witnessed the peaked rooftop of Our Lady of Peace Church rise above acres of pear orchards and dirt roads. Though her seed was planted, an unexpected turn of events nearly shut down the poor, fledgling parish.This is the remarkable story of the priests and people who turned a futureless church into a mecca of faith and conversion with a simple hope for the future, zeal for souls, and unwavering love for Christ and His Mother.Seemingly against all odds, today New Bethlehem houses a 32-foot statue of Christ's Mother-with-Child, one of the country's busiest Catholic churches and Marian shrines and--where Bethlehem providentially means "house of bread"--over 40 years of continuously-attended Eucharistic adoration. Surrounded by high-tech, hotels, and highways, Our Lady of Peace Church and Shrine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is an oasis of peace where joyful laborers cultivate the fruits of faith in modern-day Silicon Valley and millions of visitors and passers-by receive her welcome. It started with a prayer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 107249812X
• ISBN13: 9781072498124
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"