Aldo Giraudo – «Il cotanto utile istituto detto oratorio di San Francesco di Sales». Motivi dell’interesse suscitato dall’opera di don Bosco nel decennio preunitario

Intendo illustrare, con l’appoggio di documentazioni archivistiche e testimonianze coeve, alcuni dei fattori che nel decennio preunitario catalizzarono sull’opera educativa e religiosa di don Giovanni Bosco simpatie e favori, anche in campo liberale, permettendole di decollare più rapidamente rispetto ad iniziative analoghe, nonostante l’accusa di conservatorismo e di diffidenza nei confronti dell’unificazione nazionale mossagli da alcuni esponenti del liberalismo radicale e anticlericale polarizzati attorno alla Gazzetta del Popolo di Felice Govean e al periodico satirico-caricaturale Il Fischietto.

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Istituto Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice – Scuole artigiane e scuole agrarie femminili

Scopo delle Scuole Artigiane Femminili e delle Scuole Agrarie Femminili è appunto quello di dare alle giovanette il senso della responsabilità dei loro doveri di fronte alla famiglia e, nello stesso tempo, aprire loro nuove vie; associarle al movimento intellettuale, economico, artistico, industriale, agricolo dei nostri giorni; armarle contro i pericoli e le difficoltà con una soda educazione che abbia per fondamento “ragione e religione”.

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Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “And preach as you go, saying ‘the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand’, (Mt 10,7) Presentation of the America South-Cone Region

Contents:

  • 1. CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS SITUATION ATTHE PRESENT DAY
  • 2. THE BEGINNINGS OF SALESIAN WORK
    • 2.1 Argentina
      • In Patagonia
    • 2.2 Uruguay

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Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “Come over to Macedonia and help us” (Acts 16,9). Presentation of the Northern European Region

Contents:

  • 1. “Come over to Macedonia and help us” (Acts 16,9)
  • 2. Beginnings of Salesian work in the Northern European Region
    • 2.1 Great Britain, Ireland-Malta, Holland and Northern Belgium

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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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Josephine Giorgi – St. Luigi Versiglia and Bishop Walsh of Maryknoll

A different type of writing comes to us from Josephine Giorgi, the second cousin of St. Luigi Versiglia. Josephine lives in Springfield, Massachusetts. The excerpt from a biography of Bishop James Walsh of Maryknoll by Raymond Kerri son exemplifies the apostolic spirit of the two Salesian martyrs along with Bishop Walsh’s deep esteem for them.

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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.

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Giovanni Bosco – First salesian colleges founded outside Turin (1863-1864)

“One and not the last study by Don Bosco this year,” writes J. B. Lemoyne referring to 1863 “was the foundation of the college at Mirabello. He had written up its regulations, using the ones at the Oratory as a basis, specifying all the duties of individual superiors and of the pupils, changing what might not be appropriate for the nature of this Institute.” These “regulations,” that remained simply handwritten for many years, according to what we have from Lemoyne, “had to be the founding statute for all the other Houses that would be opened over time. This meant they were given much importance.”

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