Seminary opens doors for tours
St. John's Seminary will offer free tours and refreshments from 1 to 4 p.m. tomorrow, Sat., Oct. 13, at the Camarillo campus, 5012 Seminary Road, just east of Lewis and Somis roads.

The open house is presented as part of Camarillo History Month, sponsored by the Pleasant Valley Historical Society. Don Juan Camarillo donated 100 acres of land in 1927 to establish St. John's Seminary, which opened its doors in 1939, according to a seminary spokesperson.

Most areas on the tour are wheelchair accessible. Parking is free.

"Tours will be conducted by seminarians," said Monsignor Craig Cox, rector and president of the seminary, "highlighted by a look into a seminarian's day as well as the places where we live, pray, study, eat, recreate and engage in all the other activities that make up the daily life at St. John's. Architectural points of interest include the monastic-style seminary chapel of St. John the Evangelist and the 45,000volume Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library."

An updated website with news and photos on the seminary's improvements and planned lectures, concerts and other special events is at www.stjohnsem.edu.

For more information, call the office of advancement at (805) 482-2755, ext. 2037, or e-mail advancement@stjohnsem.edu.