In mid-April we were happy to receive a visit by Fr. John Franck to San Román. Fr. John is an assistant general of the Assumptionists stationed in Rome. He was in Argentina to get to know our work better since he has been given responsibility for South America as a continent and Assumptionist educational institutions around the world as a particular area of concern. He was accompanied by Fr. Juan Carlos Cisterna, the provincial of the Assumptionists in Chile-Argentina and his first assistant Fr. Esteban Monsalves.

While at San Román Fr. John had a had a moment to get together with our young missionary group which had just returned from a Holy Week experience in a poor area not far from Buenos Aires where they worked with families, were involved in catechetical instruction, and played with the local children.

Fr. John had a chance to visit our sister institution as well, Our Lady of Lourdes, where he presided at the blessing of the new statue of the Virgin which adorns the school.

By Fr. Juan Carlos Marzolla, AA, Assumptionist director.