Father Albert Braun didn’t have much outside his Purple Heart medal when the 30 year old returned from WWI in 1919—$100 in U.S. Army pay, three shovels and a stonemason friend in California—but he believed he had enough to build a majestic church on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico to replace a crumbling adobe structure. His dream was so contagious, he received free floor plans for a Romanesque-style church from noted Philadelphia architect William Stanton. His stonemason
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