Old Mission Bell

At sundown a church bell tolled and the chapel was soon filled with humble worshippers. In E.S. Glover's 1875 account, the building was described as impressive, with walls covered with pictures of saints and crucifixion, and the Indians were described as very devout, patiently telling their beads. Many aged people were led to and from the church, some totally blind and others so bowed with age that they walked on hands and feet. A bell later donated to the former M.O.N.A.C. in Spokane, Washington, by Fr. Walter Schoenberg, S.J., was said to have come from a mission in the Northwest, raising the possibility that it came from the Old Mission.

Idaho · United States