On Thursday, September 8, at the Santuario San Damiano in Assisi, Br. Kevin Leonel Flores Godoy, age 26 was received into the novitiate and invested with the habit of St. Francis by Fr. Antonio Riccio, O.F.M., Delegate of the Provincial Minister and Secretary for Formation and Studies of our province.  Br. Kevin joins ten other notices who will comprise this very large novitiate class, consisting of three novices from the Assisi Province, as well as novices from Portugal, Malta, and two other Italian provinces.  The eleven novices were told by Fr. Francesco Piloni, O.F.M., Provincial Minister of the Seraphic Province, that this was a year of both testing and conversion.  The young friars were entrusted to the Novice Master Fr. Danilo who, together with the formation community of San Damiano, will accompany their journey this year, in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus and of St. Francis.