Investiture of New Novices
 
Two of our province’s postulants were invested with the Franciscan habit and began their novitiate at the Sanctuary of San Damiano in Assisi, Italy.  New friars Oscar Danilo Valle Perez, 27,  from Nicaragua and Luis Hernandez, 33,  of El Salvador received the habit of the order from Friar Antonio Riccio, OFM, Provincial Definitor, in the chapel of San Damiano on Saturday, September 7, 2019. Friars Oscar and Luis will be making their novitiate at San Damiano, part of the Seraphic Province of St. Francis of Assisi of Umbria. 
Congratulations Oscar and Luis.  You are in our prayers.