Father Paolo Da Rimini was preparing for St. Martin's Feast. His day would be consumed with celebrating a noon mass in which the parishioners would bring their pigs in to be blessed. Father Paolo would bless the pigs before they were butchered. It was a Spanish tradition carried over from the first Franciscan priests that the fattened pigs would meet their fate on this feast day. The parishioners had a saying "Todos los dias de cerdo es el dia de San Martin', loosely translated it meant "every pig has its day on Saint Martin's day". Preparing the altar for the sacraments his routine was interrupted by Consuela, the rectory secretary. "Father, you have a phone call in the rectory. I think it's your niece." "Why is my niece calling me today, of all days?" "I don't know Father, she soun