First professions in the Arco Norte Region
Four young men finished their second year in the Interprovincial Novitiate La Valla in MedellĂn and made their first religious profession in the Marist Institute in December.
Brothers Mesvin Antonio MarroquĂn LeĂłn (Guatemala) and JosĂ© Gerardo Rivera Hernández (El Salvador) made their first profession on 8 December in Guatemala. Also, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Brother Ernesto JosĂ© Da Costa Omaña, from Norandina, made his first profession in the novitiate of MedellĂn. Br. Nicolás Pedro PinzĂłn MartĂnez, from MĂ©xico Central, was professed on 11 December in Mexico City.