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 | | I entered Rampart Street....and as I passed down the street to where I had observed, not far distant, a crowd gathered around the door of a large white stuccoed building, burdened by a clumsy hunchbacked kind of tower, surmounted by a huge wooden cross. |
 | | Statues of the Blessed Virgin, St. Joseph, St. Martha, St. Expedite, St. Michael, St. Peter, St. Raymond, and St. Anthony, drew an exceptionally large number of the faithful for daily prayer. |
 | | Father Bornes was succeeded by Father Joseph P. Laux, O.M.I. Father Laux was born in San Antonio, Texas, on July 29, 1906. |
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