Deeply researched and heavily reviewed, the 700-page tome stretches from the aftermath of the Salt Lake Temple opening in 1893 to the dedication of Switzerland’s Bern Temple, the first constructed outside of North America, in 1955.
George Albert Smith, left, who later would become church president — with daughter Edith, wife Lucy and Professor Walter A. Kerr — visits a former battlefield likely in France in August 1920.“Saints,” an official history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Unsure where else to look, he drove to Brigham Young University in Provo one Saturday and began poking around a shelf of Mormon biographies. It was there he stumbled upon the story of a woman named Helga Meyer , a third-generation Latter-day Saint born in 1920 in East Prussia. ″ is the third installment in a four-volume official history of the Utah-based faith. Deeply researched and heavily reviewed, including by the church’s top brass, the 700-page tome stretches from the aftermath of the Salt Lake Temple opening in 1893 to the dedication of Switzerland’s Bern Temple, the first constructed outside of North America, in 1955.is its “global scope,” said Scott Hales, a writer who worked on the project.
“So again, I find an address and go knock on the door” only to discover that, like Meyer, not only is dos Santos still alive — then 102 years old — but also living nearby. Monroy family members joined the LDS Church in Mexico in the early 20th century and are among those featured in "Saints, Volume 3." Rafael Monroy, far left, was a branch president killed along with another Latter-day Saint during the Mexican Revolution.