sentences:  For high school, he attended Los Angeles College, which was a minor seminary run by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for high-school age boys who were considering the priesthood.Upon his graduation in 1947 he joined the Congregation of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul, taking his vows in 1949.He did his seminary studies at the Vincentian seminary in Perryville, Missouri, earning a bachelor's degree in 1952.