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Don Bosco
Don Bosco and his daily crosses
Don Bosco's life had much suffering but he bore it all with heroic humility and patience. Instead, we would like to talk here about daily crosses, more the passing kind but no less heavy....
Don Bosco, la Salette, Lourdes
In the month that recalls the apparitions at Lourdes for us, we take the opportunity to point out the error into which, some time ago, the author of a negative life-story of Don Bosco...
Bullying. A new thing? It was also around in Don Bosco’s time
It is certainly no mystery for those who know the “living reality” of Valdocco, so well and not only the “ideal” or “virtual” one, that daily life in a decidedly restricted structure accommodating several...
Don Bosco and the Bible
In a chapter of the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, which deals with 'Sacred Scripture in the Life of the Church', all the Christian faithful are urged to...
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...