Saints Peter and Paul Church
Twin-spired Italian-community church with stained glass set by imported glaziers, rebuilt after the 1906 quake.
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This guide to Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco's North Beach opens on a January afternoon in 1954, when Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, newly married at City Hall, came to its steps for the wedding photos everyone remembers. It traces DiMaggio's earlier history with the parish, including his first marriage there in 1939, and the twin-spired church's own rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Along the way it points you to what the parish's own photo record actually shows about that famous day.
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