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Watch Now: The historic bells at San Xavier Mission just got a full spa treatment.
The bronze bells are still in use, so conservators cleaned and coated them to keep them ringing.
Henry Brean
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Buying more ring time for San Xavier Mission's historic bellsFor Star subscribers: The bells that have rung out over the mission near Tucson for more than 200 years were recently taken down and treated in hopes of keeping them ringing for decades to come.
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