Abruzzo Roots of a California Mission
I was about twelve years old when our family made a trip to the late 18th-c Spanish Franciscan mission church San Juan Capistrano in California. On a recent Abruzzo jaunt, Pino and I linked up with the Mission’s origins, exploring the Franciscan monastery just outside L’Aquila, San Giuliano, where San Giovanni from Capestrano (a tiny…
