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Marble bust of bishop Francis Asbury in the Garden of the First United Methodist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. #229323853
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Pictured is a white marble bust of bishop Francis Asbury in the Garden of the First United Methodist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. It sits on a granite pedestal. This life-sized marble bust is the work of Bruno File of the Apollini and Tosi studio in Pietrasanta, Italy. Francis Asbury was born in 1745 and died in 1816. He was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. During his 45 years in the colonies and the newly independent United States, he devoted his life to ministry, traveling on horseback and by carriage thousands of miles to those living on the frontier.
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