Missions

The Giving of the Salesian Missionary Cross

On 24 September the Rector Major presided at the giving of the missionary cross to the members of the 154th Missionary expedition of the...

Our Saints

Venerable Archbishop Antônio de Almeida Lustosa “father and friend of the poor”

On 22 June 2023, the Holy Father Francis received Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in audience, and...

Venerable Dorotea Chopitea

Who was Dorotea de Chopitea? She was a Salesian cooperator, a true mother of the poor in Barcelona, creator of numerous institutions at the...

Communications from the Rector Major

I wish to continue to serve others… in a different way. MY NOMINATION AS CARDINAL

I feel I share the 1884 affirmation of our holy Founder, “I see more and more what a glorious future is prepared for our...

Children of the family

Rediscover the great value of closeness, friendship, simple joy in everyday life, the value of sharing, of talking and communicating.I write these lines, dear...

This is love…

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...

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