Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Beatification of Bro. Artemide Zatti: a sensational precedent

Contents:

• 1. The Missing Fragment
• 2. Don Bosco’s coadjutor Brothers
• 3. Vocational profile of Artemide Zatti
  • 3.1 Meeting with Don Bosco in Patagonia
  • 3.2 Salesian vocation
  • 3.3 The trial of sickness and its acceptance
  • 3.4 Always with Don Bosco as a Salesian Brother
  • 3.5 A full-time Good Samaritan
  • 3.6 Towards a long prepared meeting: popular recognition as “kinsman to the poor”

• 4. Message of Artemide Zatti: prospects for today
  • 4.1 Unique testimony to salesian holiness
    • The magnetism of Don Bosco
    • Total dedication
    • Infirmarian and educator
    • “Sanctified work”: synthesis of spirituality and professional skill
    • Evangelically rooted rellection of God
  • 4.2 The Salesian Brother
    • The figure of the salesian coadjutor
    • Some particular points:
    • The institutional form of Institutes
    • The salesian brother and lay collaborators;
    • Formation of the salesian brother
• 5. Pastoral work for vocations: invitation to a special commitment
• Conclusion: our call to sanctity

Reference time period: 2001

Reference institution:
Direzione Generale SDB