Don Bosco ha accettato e vissuto la sua vecchiaia con singolare energia psicologica e morale, pur soffrendo intimamente distacchi, momenti di più acuta solitudine e di forzata inazione. Non si arrese mai al deperimento progressivo sul piano fisico.
Continue reading “Pietro Braido – “Don Bosco prete dei giovani nel secolo delle libertà””
Sebbene sia scopo delle Letture Cattoliche di pubblicare operette di stile semplice e dirette specialmente alla classe meno erudita del popolo; tuttavia ci parve cosa utile stampare una serie di fatti curiosi ed edificanti, i quali, mentre possono tornare utili ad ogni condizione di persone, siano in modo particolare diretti alla gioventù. Continue reading “Giovanni Bosco – Esempi edificanti proposti specialmente alla gioventù-Ai nostri lettori”
What follows is an attempt to write a history of the foundation and development of the Salesians in England, from the origins in the 1940s up to 1930, with a postscript on the crisis of 1939-40.
The aim of the Seminar is to present the beginnings of the Salesian Presence in East Asia and Oceania. The Philippines, as part of this Salesian Region, has also its beginnings and origins from the first Salesian Presence in East Asia: China. For in the two times that the Salesians started to root themselves in the Philippines, they came from China to negotiate and to concretise what they negotiated. Continue reading “Nestor Impelido – “Salesians in the Philippines (1949-1963): historical notes” in “The beginning of the Salesian presence in east Asia”.”
Up to the present day, officially the Salesians of Vietnam has had a history of over 52 years. A history that is long, as well as epic and fruitful enough to draw admiration from many, as well as attention of those who are interested in Salesian history, as we are here in these days. Unluckily, because of the social and political turmoil of the country, most of the documents had been destroyed or lost, which certainly renders the writing down this history become a very challenging task. it is my task to present to you a short historical account of the first period of this glorious history. The beginning of the Salesian Work in Vetnam, of which, in using biblical expression, I would dare to give a subtitle: The Patriarchal story and the Exodus. The account that my presentation is dealing with covers a time-span of about 25 years, roughly from 1930 to 1955. Continue reading “John Nguyen Van Ty – “The beginning of the salesian work in Vietnam: the patriarchal story and exodus” in “The beginning of the Salesian presence in east Asia”.”
The present paper, a textual elaboration of the power-point presented at the Batulao Seminar, tries to re-capture the salient moments in the history of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) in Timor (and Indonesia) from their arrival up to the present day. Our presence in this land is rather recent considering that we arrived in Timor only in 1988.
On 6 February l922,Pius XI (1939) ascended the Papal throne: he would become known as a “Pope of the Missions” (as was his predecessor, Benedict XV). Two months later, on 24 April, Fr. Filippo Rinaldi ( 5 December 1931) was elected Rector Major: his ten years in office would be recalled for the great re-launching of the Salesian missionary movement. After a rapid glance at the “missionary policy” of the Papacy during the same period, we shall concentrate on that. Continue reading “Francesco Motto – “Salesian missionary activity while blessed Filippo Rinaldi (1921-1931) was Rector maior with particular reference to eastern Asia” in “The beginning of the Salesian presence in east Asia”.”
After the permission from the General Council was obtained, Sr. Catherine Moore, delegate of the Provincial Superior, left Hongkong for the Philippines on 1° December 1955 with Sr. Erminia Borzini to make the necessary preparations.
L’espansione della Congregazione alla fine dell’Ottocento, inizi del Novecento portò i salesiani a rafforzare la loro presenza in America Latina, ad iniziare ad operare in America Centrale, negli stati Uniti, in Africa, in India e in Cina. Nel nostro paese, dal 1890 al 1910, ci fu un aumento complessivo di circa 75 case. Continue reading “Stefano Martoglio – “L’opera salesiana in Piemonte durante il rettorato di don Rua (1888-1910). Spunti di indagine a partire dalle opere fondate e dalle richieste di presenze salesiane”, in “Don Michele Rua primo successore di Don Bosco. Tratti di personalità, governo e opere (1888-1910)”.”
Il Rettor Maggiore, don J. E.Vecchi, che già nel 1997 aveva sottolineato l’importanza della storiografia salesiana (lett. Io per voi studio, ACG 361), nel 1998 è ritornato sull’argomento.
The Rector Major, Fr J. E. Vecchi, had already in 1997 emphasized the importance of the study of salesian history (cf. Letter For you I study, AGC 361), and in 1998 he came back once more to the same argument.
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