Religion: Rites for Bones

Through a cemetery in San Antonio, Tex. one day last week moved soldiers, priests, politicians, Governor James V. Allred, San Antonio's Catholic Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, Mexico's exiled Apostolic Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, and a hearse bearing a coffin containing a heap of old bones. Into a fresh grave went the bones, good Catholic dust, buried 200 years ago in a San Antonio mission cemetery, lately dug up in good preservation during excavation for a new post office.

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