La storia come approfondimento del fatto umano non è statica nel già acquisito: essa è dinamica ed irreversibile per esigenza di precisione cronologica, di chiarificazioni di avvenimenti, della loro interpretazione e degli effetti nel loro divenire.
Pietro Chiocchetta – San Giovanni Bosco, Mons. Daniele Comboni e le iniziative missionarie per l’Africa centrale (1857-1881)
A questo proposito, per quanto riguarda l’Africa e più precisamente sulla presenza di S. Giovanni Bosco alla nascita della Chiesa nell’Africa centrale, in diverse occasioni delle notizie sono venute alla luce, come per es. nel su citato studio di don Favale (p. 910-911). Ma sporadicamente; per cui non si è potuto cogliere, evidenziare e pregiare il significato e il valore di tale presenza.
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
Contents:
- 1. Brief general presentation of the Region
- Social situation
- Cultural context
- Presence of the Catholic Church
- Consecrated life
- 2. How Don Bosco arrived and his charism has grown
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s Missionary Dreams (Part II)
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.
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Michael Ribotta – ‘The road not taken”–The Salesians’ circuitous road to North America
In the fall of 1870, for reasons that have never been documented, Don Bosco did not answer Archbishop Joseph Alemany’s invitation to travel the El Camino Real in the land of El Dorado.
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.