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Swallows Return Today is the feast day of St. Joseph...a day that's not a Holy Day of Obligation, but is notable for a significant event that's occurred on this day for almost 200 years: the return of the famous cleft-tailed swallows to the Mission San Juan Capistrano in California following an almost 6000 mile migration from Argentina. We'll hear a reading from a book written in 1937 by Father John O'Sullivan...a pastor of the Mission...called "Capistrano Nights -- Tales of a California Mission Town." (STATIONS: "Capistrano Nights -- Tales of a California Mission Town" was published by McBride and Company in 1937. Check your local public library.) (8:00) ((ST

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Today is the feast day of St. Joseph...a day that's not a Holy Day of Obligation, but is notable for a significant event that's occurred on this day for almost 200 years: the return of the famous cleft-tailed swallows to the Mission San Juan Capistrano in California following an almost 6000 mile migration from Argentina. We'll hear a reading from a book written in 1937 by Father John O'Sullivan...a pastor of the Mission...called "Capistrano Nights — Tales of a California Mission Town." (STATIONS: "Capistrano Nights — Tales of a California Mission Town" was published by McBride and Company in 1937. Check your local public library.) (8:00) ((ST