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Newport church makes pet day a blessed event

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In an event fitting for the patron saint of animals, pet owners took their four-legged, winged and finned friends to a Newport Beach church Sunday for blessings in honor of St. Francis of Assisi.

Most of the animals were dogs, but doves, fish and even a horse showed up.

St. James the Great Episcopal Church hosted the ceremony to commemorate the feast day of St. Francis, an Italian Catholic friar known as the founder of the Franciscan Order.

--Rob Vardon

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