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August 28, 2016

Catholic mission set up to bring God to hipsters

Conventual Franciscan friars greet the residents of the Greenpoint/Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2015, shortly after they opened their San Damiano Mission in the neighborhood, which had been the Holy Family (Slovak) Church.

WASHINGTON – The gray robes worn by the Conventual Franciscan friars may not be fashionable in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, but the religious men appear to be fitting in just fine in the heart of "hipster" country.

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