After completing their one-year novitiate at the Santuario San Damiano in Assisi, Italy, our four novices, Friars Dagoberto Hernandez, Mathew Mancino, Kevin Gabriel Gonzalez Vega, and Nelson Aldair Orantes Calderon, along with three novices from the Seraphic Provnce of St. Francis of Assisi, Assisi, Italy, professd their first vows at the hands of Friar Francesco Piloni, O.F.M., Provincial Minister fo the Assisi Province.  The four friars will now be transferred to the Convento San Francesco in Rome to continue their initial formation.  Congratulations, bothers.