Pascual Chavez Villanueva – “You are the salt of the earth… you are the light of the world” (Mt 5,13-14) Presentation of the East Asia – Oceania Region

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Michael Ribotta – Discovering America: Father Raphael Pipemi and the first salesian missionaries in North America

A young Italian immigrant, Angelo Petazzi, watched anxiously as the English steamship, the Werra, approached New York harbor. Clutched in his hand was a letter from the then Salesian superior general, Father Michael Rua, which informed him of the impending arrival of a group of four Salesians in New York. At their head was Father Raphael Piperni.

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Domenico Cerrato,Francesco Motto – Missionari-pionieri “alla fine del mondo”. Dall’ “Osservatorio Meteorologico Salesiano” di Domenico Cerrato e dal “Bollettino Salesiano”

Accanto a mons. Giuseppe Fagnano nell’estremo sud del mondo operarono eroicamente “per la salvezza delle anime”, ma senza trascurare i corpi e la scienza, altri missionari salesiani.

Questi ed altri missionari-pionieri come loro (cattolici e protestanti),  sono ormai parte della storia del territorio magellanico e non potranno passare inosservati nelle non lontane celebrazioni per il quinto centenario della scoperta dello stretto.

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Joseph Gevaert – “Insegnamento della religione ed evangelizzazione”, in “Progetto Educativo Pastorale”

Con tutti i suoi limiti, le sue enormi difficoltà e miserie l’Insegnamento Religioso è comunque un punto d’incontro dove la Chiesa incontra il maggior numero di giovani. Esso è il luogo dove con sincerità pedagogica e nel rispetto della libertà religiosa si può fare un discorso religioso e realizzare una collaborazione che è di grande importanza per l’evangelizzazione.

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