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Don Bosco
Don Bosco and his date of birth
The archives speak of 16 August: but there is a curious and affectionate interpretation.The archive dataThe Register of Baptisms at the Parish of Sant'Andrea in Castelnuovo d'Asti puts it clearly in the parish priest...
Don Bosco and door-to-door waste collection
Who would have thought it? Don Bosco as an early ecologist? Don Bosco pioneering door-to-door waste collection 140 years ago?We could say so, at least according to one of the letters we have recovered...
Don Bosco’s gaze
But who would believe it? Don Bosco’s ‘vision’ was such that he... saw so many things!An elderly priest, a former pupil at Valdocco, wrote in 1889: “What stood out most in Don Bosco was...
Fr Giulio Barberis and his “Cronichetta”: day by day at Valdocco with Don Bosco
On 21 February 1875 some Salesians decided to set up an “historical commission” to “collect memories of Don Bosco's life”, committing themselves to “write down and together read what we write in order to...
Don Bosco to Fr Orione: We will always be friends
Saint Louis Orione: "My most beautiful years were those spent in the Salesian Oratory."An emotional recollection of the saintly Father Orione.Who does not know the song Giù dai colli, un dì lontano con la...
Salesian Family
ADMA – A way to holiness and apostolate according to Don Bosco’s charism
The Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA) was founded on 18 April 1869 by Don Bosco, as the second group of his work after the Salesians, with the aim of “promoting the glories...
Salesian Family. Like branches of a tree
I had always admired Don Bosco, his passion for young people, his spirituality made of joy and concreteness, but I was unaware that there was a large Family around him. When someone spoke to...
