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Where are vocations coming from? Among other places, the hills of California, where a small college is producing seminarians the way Fresno produces raisins: Five alumni of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula were ordained to the priesthood this year, bringing the total number of alumni priests to 47. The college also boasts 20 graduates…http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0DySLTT4PWo/RsRuZfw6dqI/AAAAAAAAAn0/dUx-8VQLlqk/s320/aerial_lowres%5B1%5D.jpg