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The Feast of St. Dominic, Sunday, August 8, 1999. We have been getting ready for this day all Summer; planning, preparing, inviting.

Today's presentation was by the Dominican Youth Movement, a way for young people to get involved in the dominican charism that is growing in popularity around the

The Feast of St. Dominic is just around the corner (August 8) but we start celebrating early here in Perú.

At the end of the day, everyone heads back down the mountain to Agua Caliente, most to catch their respective train back home.

Here are the gratuitous tourist shots. Yes, we made it, see! The first two are of Bob Knickerbocker, a friend who came down from the states to help (and he did!).

Machu Picchu. The place where everyone goes, and for good reason.

For mass this morning, we visited the nuns at Sta. Rosa Monastery, the smaller of the two Dominican monasteries in town.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

"Everything is better in Arequipa" say the locals here. I'm inclined to agree.

fr. Gregorio Chávez OP
Fr. Gregorio is the confessor of one of the two Dominican Monasteries here in Arequipa, Santa Rosa.

Yesterday Bob Knickerbocker and I arrived in Arequipa, a smaller city of about 500,000 people in the south, near the mountains, nested between three volcanoes.

Casa Hogar de San Martin is the house where St. Martin de Porres was born. His mother, Anna, was a servant in the house, a freed slave of African descent.