The focus of this article is the question, what has been the educational impact of the Salesian work in South Africa since its foundation until the 1950s? This article begins with the foundation that the Salesians made in Cape Town, yet it focuses on the educational models that the Salesians were working with and the South African educational context in which this work developed.
At the first official Conference of the Catholic Bishops and Mission Superiors of Southern Africa in December 1895 it was announced that Bishop Leonard had already agreed with the Salesians of Turin (Don Bosco) to open a house at Cape Town for the recovery of poor boys of an older age. Continue reading “John Dickson – “War, racism and immobility the social impact of the early salesian work in Cape Town”, in “L’Opera Salesiana dal 1880 al 1922. Esperienze particolari in Europa, Africa, Asia”.”
In Part One of the present installment (Part Four overall), we shall discuss the last two dreams in a similar manner to the first article. Part Two (Five) will deal with the significance of the missionary dreams, with interpretative comments.
Continue reading “Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s Missionary Dreams (Part II)”
Il Santo Padre ebbe la bontà di ricevere don Rinaldi in udienza particolare il 14 gennaio ultimo scorso; e così profonda e gradita fu l’impressione che riportò da quel colloquio.
L’augusto Pontefice manifestò ancora una volta la grandissima benevolenza che nutre per la Società Salesiana, e l’altissimo concetto in cui tiene il Venerabile Padre e Fondatore. Si compiacque di ricordare alcuni particolari della sua personalità, e insistette sul pensiero già espresso nel magnifico discorso che tenne in occasione della lettura del Decreto sulla eroicità delle virtù di Don Bosco, vale a dire che troppo poco si conosce qual uomo di talento e di studio
egli fosse. Continue reading “Filippo Rinaldi – Udienza Pontificia – Missione di Krishnagar e Vicariato di Kimberley”
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