Contents:
- 1. CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS SITUATION ATTHE PRESENT DAY
- 2. THE BEGINNINGS OF SALESIAN WORK
- 2.1 Argentina
- In Patagonia
- 2.2 Uruguay
- 2.1 Argentina
Antonia Colombo – La profecía a la que está llamada la educación salesiana hoy
Este aporte ha sido ofrecido con ocasión del centenario de la presencia de las Hijas de Maria Auxiliadora en Colombia. Con estas reflexiones la autora desea unirse al camino de búsqueda de nuevos avances en la calidad educativa, tanto en el campo de la escuela, como también en los demás ambientes educativos salesianos del vasto continente americano.
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Michael Mendl – New information on the salesians’coming to New York
Fr. Michael Mendl, in his research has discovered “a long missing letter” that states Don Bosco’s refusal to send Salesians to New York in 1848. This letter completes Michael Mendl ‘s article in the Journal on founding Salesian work in New York. (Vol. XI, No. I, Spring 2000).
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Maria Dosio – Spiritualità mariana di Laura Vicuña (1891-1904)
Maria Dosio, fermando l’attenzione sul clima educativo creato dalle FMA nelle prime fondazioni in terra argentina agli inizi del nostro secolo, ci guida a percepire verso quali mete possibili condurre l’attuazione del «sistema preventivo» di don Bosco, adeguatamente intessuto di spiritualità mariana, anche in contesti socio-culturali diversi da quello in cui è sorto.
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Michael Mendl – “The zeal of the salesians is just the thing”. Founding of the salesian work in New York
Over one hundred years ago, on November 28, 1898, three Salesians arrived in New York to initiate a Salesian apostolate among the Italian immigrants of that metropolis. In March of the previous year four of their confreres had undertaken a similar mission in San Francisco.
Giovanni Bosco – A missionary project in rapid development
What were Don Bosco’s missionary plans for Argentina once he had set foot in that land? With the information in his possession thanks to research by Fr Giulio Barberis, and to correspondence with local authorities and Salesian missionaries, six months after the first expedition Don Bosco was able to send the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide, Cardinal Alessandro Franchi, a first report on the immediate results of the work of Salesian missionaries in Argentina (no. 98). He asked for financial aid and the setting up of an Apostolic Prefecture for the territories of Pampa and Patagonia to refer those who belonged to no institution either ecclesiastical or civil.
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Giovanni Bosco – Sources prior to the first missionary expedition
The first seven documents offered here belong in some way to the first missionary expedition which sailed from Genoa on November 14, 1875.
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Arthur Lenti – The founding and early expansion of the salesian work in the San Francisco area from Archival Documents, Part II
As in the earlier article, so also in the present one, besides transcribing and translating pertinent archival documents (chiefly letters), I will try to provide an essential historical framework designed to make the sequence intelligible.
Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Centennial celebration of the salesian presence in the United States of America. Homily in San Francisco, February 2, 1997
For the beginning of our centennial celebration we are gathered together here as a family in the place where the Salesians established their first presence in the United States of America. When we compare our present- day situation with that at the moment of our arrival we find much for which we must be grateful to God.
Luc Van Looy – Bringing Don Bosco into the mainstream. Lecture in San Francisco, February 24, 1997
Congratulations on your hundred years of faithful work with and for Don Bosco, with and for young people and with and for so many good people of this great country, to bring the message of the Lord to the young in their own context.
Arthur Lenti – The founding and early expansion of the salesian work in the San Francisco area from Archival Documents
Recently the Central Salesian Archives released the files of the Rua rectorate on some 1,750 microfiches. This boon has made archival research in that rectorate possible even for students residing away from the Central Archives.
Philip J. Pascucci – Out of our past an american venture into seminary training
That is part of the well known talk which Don Bosco gave to his boys when they were forced to move from place to place for their Sunday gatherings. That became known as the wandering oratory. This is the story of another transplanting, another wandering.
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