From Crooked Media, this is unholyer than now. I'm your host, Philip Picardy.

On Saturday, July 11th, firefighters in Los Angeles received a call at 424 in the morning.

The son Gabriel Mission Church, a 215 year old building, and one of the oldest Catholic

houses of worship in the city, was burning. It was the de facto symbol of the mission's

nearly 250 years of work in bringing Catholicism to California. The fire is

believed to us started in the choir.

As the firefighters worked to extinguish the flames from inside,

pieces of the centuries-old building started to fall on them.

They retreated outside, but by the time they'd finally beat it,

hours later, the roof was destroyed.

The pews burned entirely.

The very next day, Catholics from all over the city came to pray outside of the mission, bringing

holy books and rosary beads.

Many of them recalled the major life events they'd held inside that church, the baptism of their children,

their own weddings, holiday celebrations.

Remy Tran found the same Gabriel mission when he first moved to LA from his native Vietnam in 1993.

Here's what he had to say about the church in the community he found there.

I heard the news today and it just it just broke my heart to

because it's so much memories that I had in that church with my choir and

families and friends.

It just so like, feel like home, you know, and that's like I said, that's the only church

that my family and I attended every Sunday.

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